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from xv.english import WordManager
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#root_folder = "books_text"
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ke = WordManager(verbose = False,
search_online = True,)
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ke.printProblemTypes()
0. _problem_word_usage 1. _problem_word_usage_fill_blanks 2. _problem_irregular_plural_forms 3. _problem_irregular_singular_forms 4. _problem_noun_plural_fill_blanks 5. _problem_noun_fill_blanks 6. _problem_pronoun_fill_blanks 7. _problem_adjective_fill_blanks 8. _problem_verb_fill_blanks 9. _problem_adverb_fill_blanks 10. _problem_preposition_fill_blanks 11. _problem_conjunction_fill_blanks 12. _problem_interjection_fill_blanks 13. _problem_determiner_fill_blanks 14. _problem_predeterminer_fill_blanks 15. _problem_fill_confusing_words 16. _problem_match_confusing_words_meanings 17. _problem_fill_misspelled_words 18. _problem_find_misspelled_out 19. _problem_fill_gender_words 20. _problem_gender_match_columns 21. _problem_option_genders 22. _problem_find_odd_gender 23. _problem_word_with_opposite_gender 24. _problem_thesaurus_match_synonyms 25. _problem_thesaurus_match_antonyms 26. _problem_find_odd_synonyms_antonyms 27. _problem_idioms_match_columns 28. _problem_find_synonym_thesaurus 29. _problem_find_antonym_thesaurus 30. _problem_find_by_synonyms_antonyms
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from IPython.display import HTML
n = len(ke._problemTemplates)
max_loop = 1
for j in range(0, max_loop):
for i in range(n):
problem_type = i
display(HTML(f"<h2>problem_type: {problem_type}/{n-1} (loop {j}/{max_loop-1})</h2>"))
ke.getRandomProblem(problem_type = problem_type, verbose = True)
display(ke.printProblem())
display(HTML(f"<h6>Answer:</h6>"))
display(ke.printAnswer())
display(HTML(f"<h6>Solution:</h6>"))
display(ke.printSolution())
pass
problem_type: 0/30 (loop 0/0)
Problem Template: _problem_word_usage
Use the following words in your sentence:
plaudit, regulation
plaudit, regulation
Answer:
Usage:
"Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride-where there is a real superiority of mind-pride will be always under good regulation."
- Pride And Prejudice
Presidency earns another plaudit - Centre chooses college to set up India's first bio-science teaching hub
- Telegraph India
Solution:
Usage:
"Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride-where there is a real superiority of mind-pride will be always under good regulation."
- Pride And Prejudice
Presidency earns another plaudit - Centre chooses college to set up India's first bio-science teaching hub
- Telegraph India
More meanings and details:
plaudit
(/ˈplɔːdɪt/): noun1. meaning: (often in the plural) A mark or expression of applause; praise bestowed.
regulations
(/ˌɹɛɡjəˈleɪʃənz/): noun1. meaning: The act of regulating or the condition of being regulated.
2. meaning: A law or administrative rule, issued by an organization, used to guide or prescribe the conduct of members of that organization.
3. meaning: A type of law made by the executive branch of government, usually by virtue of a statute made by the legislative branch giving the executive the authority to do so.
4. meaning: (European Union law) A form of legislative act which is self-effecting, and requires no further intervention by the Member States to become law.
5. meaning: Mechanism controlling DNA transcription.
6. meaning: Physiological process which consists in maintaining homoeostasis.
regulation
(/ˌɹɛɡjʊˈleɪʃən/): noun1. meaning: The act of regulating or the condition of being regulated.
2. meaning: A law or administrative rule, issued by an organization, used to guide or prescribe the conduct of members of that organization.
3. meaning: A type of law made by the executive branch of government, usually by virtue of a statute made by the legislative branch giving the executive the authority to do so.
4. meaning: (European Union law) A form of legislative act which is self-effecting, and requires no further intervention by the Member States to become law.
5. meaning: Mechanism controlling DNA transcription.
6. meaning: Physiological process which consists in maintaining homoeostasis.
regulation
(/ˌɹɛɡjʊˈleɪʃən/): noun: adjective1. meaning: In conformity with applicable rules and regulations.
Meanings:
plaudit: An expression of gratitude or praise; applause
regulation: authoritative rule
problem_type: 1/30 (loop 0/0)
Please wait ... Problem Template: _problem_word_usage_fill_blanks
Fill in the blanks using words given below.
Use punctuation or change the form of words if needed.
Words: coloration, turn, diddle, sake
... Don Quixote did not sleep at all that night but thought of his lady Dulcinea, in order to conform to what he had read in his books of knights spending many sleepless nights in groves and meadows, __________ all their thoughts to memories of their ladies. Sancho Panza did not do the same; since his stomach was full, and not with chicory water, he slept the entire night, and if his master had not called him, the rays of the sun shining in his face and the song of numerous birds joyfully greeting the arrival of the new day would have done nothing to rouse him....
- Don Quixote
... If your misfortune were one that had all doors closed to any sort of consolation, I intended to help you weep and lament to the best of my ability, for it is still a consolation in affliction to find someone who mourns with you. And if my good intentions deserve to be thanked with some courtesy, I entreat you, Se?or, for the __________ of the great courtesy I see in you, and I implore you, for the __________ of the thing you have loved or do love most in this life, to tell me who you are and the reason that has compelled you to live and die in this desolate place like a wild animal, for you dwell among the beasts estranged from your true self, as demonstrated by your dress and your person....
- Don Quixote
... The leaves of the almond trees were broken. The houses, painted blue, then painted red, had ended up with an indefinable __________.
- One Hundred Years Of Solitude
Mesmerized by Modi's strong man image, Mehbooba allowed herself to be __________ by his false promises and her vain hopes. Now, she has been cast aside by the same Modi on whom she pinned her excessive expectations.
- NDTV
Words: coloration, turn, diddle, sake
Answer:
... Don Quixote did not sleep at all that night but thought of his lady Dulcinea, in order to conform to what he had read in his books of knights spending many sleepless nights in groves and meadows, turning all their thoughts to memories of their ladies. Sancho Panza did not do the same; since his stomach was full, and not with chicory water, he slept the entire night, and if his master had not called him, the rays of the sun shining in his face and the song of numerous birds joyfully greeting the arrival of the new day would have done nothing to rouse him....
- Don Quixote
... If your misfortune were one that had all doors closed to any sort of consolation, I intended to help you weep and lament to the best of my ability, for it is still a consolation in affliction to find someone who mourns with you. And if my good intentions deserve to be thanked with some courtesy, I entreat you, Se?or, for the sake of the great courtesy I see in you, and I implore you, for the sake of the thing you have loved or do love most in this life, to tell me who you are and the reason that has compelled you to live and die in this desolate place like a wild animal, for you dwell among the beasts estranged from your true self, as demonstrated by your dress and your person....
- Don Quixote
... The leaves of the almond trees were broken. The houses, painted blue, then painted red, had ended up with an indefinable coloration.
- One Hundred Years Of Solitude
Mesmerized by Modi's strong man image, Mehbooba allowed herself to be diddled by his false promises and her vain hopes. Now, she has been cast aside by the same Modi on whom she pinned her excessive expectations.
- NDTV
- Don Quixote
... If your misfortune were one that had all doors closed to any sort of consolation, I intended to help you weep and lament to the best of my ability, for it is still a consolation in affliction to find someone who mourns with you. And if my good intentions deserve to be thanked with some courtesy, I entreat you, Se?or, for the sake of the great courtesy I see in you, and I implore you, for the sake of the thing you have loved or do love most in this life, to tell me who you are and the reason that has compelled you to live and die in this desolate place like a wild animal, for you dwell among the beasts estranged from your true self, as demonstrated by your dress and your person....
- Don Quixote
... The leaves of the almond trees were broken. The houses, painted blue, then painted red, had ended up with an indefinable coloration.
- One Hundred Years Of Solitude
Mesmerized by Modi's strong man image, Mehbooba allowed herself to be diddled by his false promises and her vain hopes. Now, she has been cast aside by the same Modi on whom she pinned her excessive expectations.
- NDTV
Solution:
... Don Quixote did not sleep at all that night but thought of his lady Dulcinea, in order to conform to what he had read in his books of knights spending many sleepless nights in groves and meadows, turning all their thoughts to memories of their ladies. Sancho Panza did not do the same; since his stomach was full, and not with chicory water, he slept the entire night, and if his master had not called him, the rays of the sun shining in his face and the song of numerous birds joyfully greeting the arrival of the new day would have done nothing to rouse him....
- Don Quixote
... If your misfortune were one that had all doors closed to any sort of consolation, I intended to help you weep and lament to the best of my ability, for it is still a consolation in affliction to find someone who mourns with you. And if my good intentions deserve to be thanked with some courtesy, I entreat you, Se?or, for the sake of the great courtesy I see in you, and I implore you, for the sake of the thing you have loved or do love most in this life, to tell me who you are and the reason that has compelled you to live and die in this desolate place like a wild animal, for you dwell among the beasts estranged from your true self, as demonstrated by your dress and your person....
- Don Quixote
... The leaves of the almond trees were broken. The houses, painted blue, then painted red, had ended up with an indefinable coloration.
- One Hundred Years Of Solitude
Mesmerized by Modi's strong man image, Mehbooba allowed herself to be diddled by his false promises and her vain hopes. Now, she has been cast aside by the same Modi on whom she pinned her excessive expectations.
- NDTV
Meanings:
turn: turn around, change orientation
sake: A wine-like Japanese beverage made with fermented rice
More meanings and details:
turns
(/tɜːnz/, /tɝnz/): verb1. meaning: (heading) to make a non-linear physical movement.
2. meaning: (heading) To change condition or attitude.
3. meaning: To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.
4. meaning: (usually with over) To complete.
example: They say they can turn the parts in two days.
5. meaning: To make (money); turn a profit.
example: We turned a pretty penny with that little scheme.
6. meaning: Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
7. meaning: To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.
example: Ivory turns well.
8. meaning: To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
9. meaning: To invert a type of the same thickness, as a temporary substitute for any sort which is exhausted.
10. meaning: To translate.
example: to turn the Iliad
11. meaning: To magically or divinely attack undead.
turns
(/tɜːnz/, /tɝnz/): verb: noun1. meaning: A change of direction or orientation.
example: Give the handle a turn, then pull it.
2. meaning: A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to its initial orientation.
3. meaning: A walk to and fro.
example: Let's take a turn in the garden.
synonyms: promenade
4. meaning: A chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others.
example: They took turns playing with the new toy.
5. meaning: A spell of work, especially the time allotted to a person in a rota or schedule.
example: I cooked tonight, so it's your turn to do the dishes.
6. meaning: One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players.
7. meaning: A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the note below the one indicated, and the note itself again.
8. meaning: The time required to complete a project.
example: They quote a three-day turn on parts like those.
synonyms: turnaround
9. meaning: A fit or a period of giddiness.
example: I've had a funny turn.
10. meaning: A change in temperament or circumstance.
example: She took a turn for the worse.
11. meaning: A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight).
12. meaning: The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em.
13. meaning: The flop (the first three community cards) in Texas hold 'em.
14. meaning: A deed done to another; an act of kindness or malice.
example: I felt that the man was of a vindictive nature, and would do me an evil turn if he found the opportunity [...].
15. meaning: A single loop of a coil.
16. meaning: (rope) A pass behind or through an object.
17. meaning: Character; personality; nature.
18. meaning: An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
19. meaning: (circus, especially physical comedy) A short skit, act, or routine.
20. meaning: A type turned upside down to serve for another character that is not available.
21. meaning: The profit made by a stockjobber, being the difference between the buying and selling prices.
diddling
: verb1. meaning: To cheat; to swindle.
2. meaning: To have sex with.
3. meaning: To masturbate (especially of women).
4. meaning: To waste time.
5. meaning: To totter, like a child learning to walk; to daddle.
6. meaning: To manipulate a value at the level of individual bits (binary digits).
turn
(, /tɜːn/, /tɝn/): verb1. meaning: (heading) to make a non-linear physical movement.
2. meaning: (heading) To change condition or attitude.
3. meaning: To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.
4. meaning: (usually with over) To complete.
example: They say they can turn the parts in two days.
5. meaning: To make (money); turn a profit.
example: We turned a pretty penny with that little scheme.
6. meaning: Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
7. meaning: To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.
example: Ivory turns well.
8. meaning: To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
9. meaning: To invert a type of the same thickness, as a temporary substitute for any sort which is exhausted.
10. meaning: To translate.
example: to turn the Iliad
11. meaning: To magically or divinely attack undead.
turn
(, /tɜːn/, /tɝn/): noun1. meaning: A change of direction or orientation.
example: Give the handle a turn, then pull it.
2. meaning: A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to its initial orientation.
3. meaning: A walk to and fro.
example: Let's take a turn in the garden.
synonyms: promenade
4. meaning: A chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others.
example: They took turns playing with the new toy.
5. meaning: A spell of work, especially the time allotted to a person in a rota or schedule.
example: I cooked tonight, so it's your turn to do the dishes.
6. meaning: One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players.
7. meaning: A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the note below the one indicated, and the note itself again.
8. meaning: The time required to complete a project.
example: They quote a three-day turn on parts like those.
synonyms: turnaround
9. meaning: A fit or a period of giddiness.
example: I've had a funny turn.
10. meaning: A change in temperament or circumstance.
example: She took a turn for the worse.
11. meaning: A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight).
12. meaning: The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em.
13. meaning: The flop (the first three community cards) in Texas hold 'em.
14. meaning: A deed done to another; an act of kindness or malice.
example: I felt that the man was of a vindictive nature, and would do me an evil turn if he found the opportunity [...].
15. meaning: A single loop of a coil.
16. meaning: (rope) A pass behind or through an object.
17. meaning: Character; personality; nature.
18. meaning: An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
19. meaning: (circus, especially physical comedy) A short skit, act, or routine.
20. meaning: A type turned upside down to serve for another character that is not available.
21. meaning: The profit made by a stockjobber, being the difference between the buying and selling prices.
turning
([ˈtɜː.nɪŋ], [ˈtɝ.nɪŋ]): verb1. meaning: (heading) to make a non-linear physical movement.
2. meaning: (heading) To change condition or attitude.
3. meaning: To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.
4. meaning: (usually with over) To complete.
example: They say they can turn the parts in two days.
5. meaning: To make (money); turn a profit.
example: We turned a pretty penny with that little scheme.
6. meaning: Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
7. meaning: To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.
example: Ivory turns well.
8. meaning: To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
9. meaning: To invert a type of the same thickness, as a temporary substitute for any sort which is exhausted.
10. meaning: To translate.
example: to turn the Iliad
11. meaning: To magically or divinely attack undead.
turning
([ˈtɜː.nɪŋ], [ˈtɝ.nɪŋ]): verb: noun1. meaning: A turn or deviation from a straight course.
example: Take the second turning on the left.
2. meaning: At hockey, a foul committed by a player attempting to hit the ball who interposes their body between the ball and an opposing player trying to do the same.
3. meaning: The shaping of wood or metal on a lathe.
4. meaning: The act of turning.
5. meaning: Shavings produced by turning something on a lathe.
example: The turnings get into your trouser turnups!
sakes
(/seɪks/): noun1. meaning: An alcoholic beverage made from fermenting various forms of rice, usually with an ABV similar to wine.
sakes
(/seɪks/): noun: noun1. meaning: Cause, interest or account
example: For the sake of argument
2. meaning: Purpose or end; reason
example: For old times' sake
3. meaning: The benefit or regard of someone or something
4. meaning: (obsolete except in phrases) contention, strife; guilt, sin, accusation or charge
sakes
(/seɪks/): noun: noun: noun1. meaning: A class of Japanese rice wines made from polished rice and typically about 20% alcohol by volume.
sakes
(/sɑːkis/): noun1. meaning: An alcoholic beverage made from fermenting various forms of rice, usually with an ABV similar to wine.
sakes
(/sɑːkis/): noun: noun1. meaning: Cause, interest or account
example: For the sake of argument
2. meaning: Purpose or end; reason
example: For old times' sake
3. meaning: The benefit or regard of someone or something
4. meaning: (obsolete except in phrases) contention, strife; guilt, sin, accusation or charge
sakes
(/sɑːkis/): noun: noun: noun1. meaning: A class of Japanese rice wines made from polished rice and typically about 20% alcohol by volume.
diddles
: verb1. meaning: To cheat; to swindle.
2. meaning: To have sex with.
3. meaning: To masturbate (especially of women).
4. meaning: To waste time.
5. meaning: To totter, like a child learning to walk; to daddle.
6. meaning: To manipulate a value at the level of individual bits (binary digits).
diddle
(, [ˈdɪdəɫ]): noun1. meaning: In percussion, two consecutive notes played by the same hand (either RR or LL), similar to the drag, except that by convention diddles are played the same speed as the context in which they are placed.
2. meaning: The penis.
diddle
(, [ˈdɪdəɫ]): noun: verb1. meaning: To cheat; to swindle.
2. meaning: To have sex with.
3. meaning: To masturbate (especially of women).
4. meaning: To waste time.
5. meaning: To totter, like a child learning to walk; to daddle.
6. meaning: To manipulate a value at the level of individual bits (binary digits).
diddle
(, [ˈdɪdəɫ]): noun: verb: interjection1. meaning: A meaningless word used when singing a tune or indicating a rhythm.
example: What's that tune that goes "diddle di-dum, diddle di-dum, diddle di-dum-dum"?
diddled
: verb1. meaning: To cheat; to swindle.
2. meaning: To have sex with.
3. meaning: To masturbate (especially of women).
4. meaning: To waste time.
5. meaning: To totter, like a child learning to walk; to daddle.
6. meaning: To manipulate a value at the level of individual bits (binary digits).
coloration
(): noun1. meaning: The act or art of coloring.
2. meaning: The quality of being colored.
3. meaning: A notational devise for indicating hemiola through either use of red ink (in mensural black notation) or black noteheads (in mensural white notation); or
4. meaning: Ornamental division (also called passaggi, glosas, diminutions. etc.) employing rapid "black notes".
turned
(/tɜːnd/, /tɝnd/): verb1. meaning: (heading) to make a non-linear physical movement.
2. meaning: (heading) To change condition or attitude.
3. meaning: To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.
4. meaning: (usually with over) To complete.
example: They say they can turn the parts in two days.
5. meaning: To make (money); turn a profit.
example: We turned a pretty penny with that little scheme.
6. meaning: Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
7. meaning: To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.
example: Ivory turns well.
8. meaning: To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
9. meaning: To invert a type of the same thickness, as a temporary substitute for any sort which is exhausted.
10. meaning: To translate.
example: to turn the Iliad
11. meaning: To magically or divinely attack undead.
sake
(/seɪk/): noun1. meaning: Cause, interest or account
example: For the sake of argument
2. meaning: Purpose or end; reason
example: For old times' sake
3. meaning: The benefit or regard of someone or something
4. meaning: (obsolete except in phrases) contention, strife; guilt, sin, accusation or charge
sake
(/sɑːkeɪ/): noun1. meaning: An alcoholic beverage made from fermenting various forms of rice, usually with an ABV similar to wine.
sake
(/sɑːkeɪ/): noun: noun1. meaning: A class of Japanese rice wines made from polished rice and typically about 20% alcohol by volume.
problem_type: 2/30 (loop 0/0)
Problem Template: _problem_irregular_plural_forms
Write plural form of the following words:
carp, shire, smithereens, term
Answer:
Plural forms:
shire: shire, shires
carp: carp
smithereens: smithereens
term: terms, term
Solution:
Plural forms:
shire: shire, shires
carp: carp
smithereens: smithereens
term: terms, term
Number forms:
carp:
singular: carp
plural: carp
shire:
plural: shire, shires
singular: shire
smithereens:
plural: smithereens
term:
plural: term, terms
singular: term
Meanings:
carp: To raise picky, trivial objections; complain peevishly
term: word or expression
More meanings and details:
carp
(/ˈkɑːp/, /ˈkɑɹp/): noun1. meaning: Any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae, especially the common carp, Cyprinus carpio.
carp
(/ˈkɑːp/, /ˈkɑɹp/): verb1. meaning: To complain about a fault; to harp on.
2. meaning: To say; to tell.
3. meaning: To find fault with; to censure.
shire
(/ʃaɪə(ɹ)/, /ʃaɪəɹ/): noun1. meaning: Physical area administered by a sheriff.
2. meaning: Former administrative area of Britain; a county.
example: Yorkshire is the largest shire in England.
3. meaning: The general area in which a person lives or comes from, used in the context of travel within the United Kingdom.
example: When are you coming back to the shire?
4. meaning: A rural or outer suburban local government area of Australia.
5. meaning: A shire horse.
shire
(/ʃaɪə(ɹ)/, /ʃaɪəɹ/): noun: verb1. meaning: To (re)constitute as one or more shires or counties.
example: County Longford was shired in 1586
smithereens
(/smɪðəˈɹiːnz/, /smɪðəˈɹiːnz/, /ˌsmɪðəˈɹinz/): noun1. meaning: (originally Ireland) Fragments or splintered pieces; numerous tiny disconnected items.
example: The urn shattered into smithereens the moment it hit the ground.
synonyms: shards, shivereens, smithers
term
(/tɜːm/, /tɝm/): noun1. meaning: That which limits the extent of anything; limit, extremity, bound, boundary.
example: "Alright, look...we can spend the holidays with your parents, but this time it will be on my terms."
2. meaning: A chronological limitation or restriction.
example: The term of a lease agreement is the period of time during which the lease is effective, and may be fixed, periodic, or of indefinite duration.
3. meaning: Any of the binding conditions or promises in a legal contract.
example: Be sure to read the terms and conditions before signing.
4. meaning: A point, line, or superficies that limits.
example: A line is the term of a superficies, and a superficies is the term of a solid.
5. meaning: A word or phrase, especially one from a specialised area of knowledge.
example: "Algorithm" is a term used in computer science.
6. meaning: Relations among people.
example: We are on friendly terms with each other.
7. meaning: Part of a year, especially one of the three parts of an academic year.
8. meaning: Duration of a set length; period in office of fixed length.
example: He was sentenced to a term of six years in prison.
9. meaning: With respect to a pregnancy, the period during which birth usually happens (approximately 40 weeks from conception).
example: at term, preterm, postterm
10. meaning: (of a patent) The maximum period during which the patent can be maintained into force.
11. meaning: A menstrual period.
12. meaning: Any value (variable or constant) or expression separated from another term by a space or an appropriate character, in an overall expression or table.
example: All the terms of this sum cancel out.
13. meaning: The subject or the predicate of a proposition; one of the three component parts of a syllogism, each one of which is used twice.
14. meaning: An essential dignity in which unequal segments of every astrological sign have internal rulerships which affect the power and integrity of each planet in a natal chart.
15. meaning: A statue of the upper body, sometimes without the arms, ending in a pillar or pedestal.
16. meaning: A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail.
example: The Cabin is large and commodious, well calculated for the Accommodation of Paſengers. Merchandiſe, Produce, &c. carried on the loweſt Terms.https//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ea/Packet_Schooner.jpg
term
(/tɜːm/, /tɝm/): noun: verb1. meaning: To phrase a certain way; to name or call.
term
(/tɜːm/, /tɝm/): noun: verb: adjective1. meaning: Born or delivered at term.
example: term neonate
term
(/tɜːm/, /tɝm/): noun1. meaning: A computer program that emulates a physical terminal.
term
(/tɜːm/, /tɝm/): noun1. meaning: One whose employment has been terminated
term
(/tɜːm/, /tɝm/): noun: verb1. meaning: To terminate one's employment
Usage:
There was no term of abuse known to the Huron vocabulary that the disappointed women did not lavishly expend on the successful stranger....
- The Last Of The Mohicans
... You are in the deeper water with your classics than I ever got into, and if you are rather sick of that swimming, Cambridge is the place where you can go into mathematics with a will, and disport yourself on the dry sand as much as you like. I floundered along like a carp."
- Daniel Deronda
... Wickham's charge, exceedingly shocked her; the more so, as she could bring no proof of its injustice. She had never heard of him before his entrance into the --shire Militia, in which he had engaged at the persuasion of the young man who, on meeting him accidentally in town, had there renewed a slight acquaintance....
- Pride And Prejudice By Jane Austen
With one of these bricks I could blow the house to smithereens. I had used the stuff in Rhodesia and knew its power. But the trouble was that my knowledge wasn't exact....
- The Thirty Nine Steps
problem_type: 3/30 (loop 0/0)
Problem Template: _problem_irregular_singular_forms
Write singular form of the following words:
favor, flannel, forceps, hazel
Answer:
Singular forms:
flannel: flannel
favor: favor
forceps: forceps
hazel: hazel
Solution:
Singular forms:
flannel: flannel
favor: favor
forceps: forceps
hazel: hazel
Number forms:
favor:
singular: favor
plural: favor, favors
flannel:
singular: flannel
plural: flannel, flannels
forceps:
plural: forceps
singular: forceps
hazel:
singular: hazel
plural: hazel, hazels
Meanings:
favor: kind act, gracious act
More meanings and details:
favor
(/ˈfeɪvə/, /ˈfeɪvɚ/): noun1. meaning: A kind or helpful deed; an instance of voluntarily assisting (someone).
example: He did me a favor when he took the time to drive me home.
2. meaning: Goodwill; benevolent regard.
example: She enjoyed the queen's favor.
3. meaning: A small gift; a party favor.
example: A marriage favour is a bunch or knot of white ribbons or white flowers worn at a wedding.
4. meaning: Mildness or mitigation of punishment; lenity.
5. meaning: The object of regard; person or thing favoured.
6. meaning: Appearance; look; countenance; face.
7. meaning: Partiality; bias.
8. meaning: A letter, a written communication.
9. meaning: Anything worn publicly as a pledge of a woman's favor.
10. meaning: (in the plural) Lovelocks.
favor
(/ˈfeɪvə/, /ˈfeɪvɚ/): noun: verb1. meaning: To look upon fondly; to prefer.
2. meaning: To encourage, conduce to
3. meaning: To do a favor [noun sense 1] for; to show beneficence toward.
example: Would you favor us with a poetry reading?
4. meaning: To treat with care.
example: Favoring your sore leg will only injure the other one.
5. meaning: (including) To resemble, to look like (another person).
flannel
(/ˈflænəl/): noun1. meaning: A soft cloth material woven from wool, possibly combined with cotton or synthetic fibers.
example: With the weather turning colder, it was time to dig out our flannel sheets and nightclothes.
2. meaning: A washcloth.
3. meaning: A flannel shirt.
4. meaning: Soothing, plausible untruth or half-truth; claptrap.
example: Don't talk flannel!
flannel
(/ˈflænəl/): noun: verb1. meaning: To rub with a flannel.
2. meaning: To wrap in flannel.
3. meaning: To flatter; to suck up to.
flannel
(/ˈflænəl/): noun: verb: adjective1. meaning: Made of flannel.
forceps
(/ˈfɔːsəps/, /ˈfɔɹsɛps/): noun1. meaning: An instrument used in surgery or medical procedures for grasping and holding objects, similar to tongs or pincers.
hazel
(/ˈheɪzəl/): noun1. meaning: A tree or shrub of the genus Corylus, bearing edible nuts called hazelnuts or filberts.
2. meaning: The nut of the hazel tree.
3. meaning: The wood of a hazelnut tree.
4. meaning: A greenish-brown colour, the colour of a ripe hazelnut.
5. meaning: Freestone
hazel
(/ˈheɪzəl/): noun: adjective1. meaning: Of a greenish-brown colour. (often used to refer to eye colour)
Usage:
... Historians have argued that the penchant for large families during this era reflects national propaganda in favor of having many children; more babies meant more bodies for the building of empire and the ongoing wars with France....
- Pride And Prejudice
... There he sat, with his tweed suit and his American accent, in the corner of a prosaic railway-carriage, and yet as I looked at his dark and expressive face I felt more than ever how true a descendant he was of that long line of high-blooded, fiery, and masterful men. There were pride, valour, and strength in his thick brows, his sensitive nostrils, and his large hazel eyes. If on that forbidding moor a difficult and dangerous quest should lie before us, this was at least a comrade for whom one might venture to take a risk with the certainty that he would bravely share it....
- The Hound Of The Baskervilles
"Ivanov, do what I told you to do," thundered the officer, drowning the other voice. His face turned as scarlet as a piece of red flannel.
- Best Russian Short Stories
... They stopped up the ends of certain drains in the barn, into the other openings of which ferrets were inserted, and then stood silently aloof, with uplifted stakes in their hands, and an anxious little terrier (Mr. James's celebrated 'dawg' Forceps, indeed) scarcely breathing from excitement, listening motionless on three legs, to the faint squeaking of the rats below....
- Vanity Fair
problem_type: 4/30 (loop 0/0)
Problem Template: _problem_noun_plural_fill_blanks
Fill in the blanks using nouns given below.
Use punctuation or change the form of words if needed.
Words: antelope, high heels, tuna, womenfolk
Taylor Swift on Her Cat's Attempt to Destroy Her Met Gala Dress: It Was Like a Crocodile Attacking an __________ on National Geographic
- People
... He had not the faintest knowledge what it really was, but he would never have sunk so low as to confess that to his __________. They listened and believed him. He believed himself.
- Sons And Lovers
... It came in the shape of a call from a certain young woman with unnaturally pink cheeks and abnormally yellow hair; a young woman who wore __________ and cheap jewelry; a young woman whom Miss Polly knew very well by reputation-but whom she was angrily amazed to meet beneath the roof of the Harrington homestead....
- Pollyanna
"Come on," the old man said aloud. "Make another turn. Just smell them. Aren't they lovely? Eat them good now and then there is the __________. Hard and cold and lovely. Don't be shy, fish. Eat them."
- The Old Man And The Sea
Words: antelope, high heels, tuna, womenfolk
Answer:
Answer:
Taylor Swift on Her Cat's Attempt to Destroy Her Met Gala Dress: It Was Like a Crocodile Attacking an Antelope on National Geographic
- People
... He had not the faintest knowledge what it really was, but he would never have sunk so low as to confess that to his womenfolk. They listened and believed him. He believed himself.
- Sons And Lovers
... It came in the shape of a call from a certain young woman with unnaturally pink cheeks and abnormally yellow hair; a young woman who wore high heels and cheap jewelry; a young woman whom Miss Polly knew very well by reputation-but whom she was angrily amazed to meet beneath the roof of the Harrington homestead....
- Pollyanna
"Come on," the old man said aloud. "Make another turn. Just smell them. Aren't they lovely? Eat them good now and then there is the tuna. Hard and cold and lovely. Don't be shy, fish. Eat them."
- The Old Man And The Sea
Solution:
Solution:
Taylor Swift on Her Cat's Attempt to Destroy Her Met Gala Dress: It Was Like a Crocodile Attacking an Antelope on National Geographic
- People
... He had not the faintest knowledge what it really was, but he would never have sunk so low as to confess that to his womenfolk. They listened and believed him. He believed himself.
- Sons And Lovers
... It came in the shape of a call from a certain young woman with unnaturally pink cheeks and abnormally yellow hair; a young woman who wore high heels and cheap jewelry; a young woman whom Miss Polly knew very well by reputation-but whom she was angrily amazed to meet beneath the roof of the Harrington homestead....
- Pollyanna
"Come on," the old man said aloud. "Make another turn. Just smell them. Aren't they lovely? Eat them good now and then there is the tuna. Hard and cold and lovely. Don't be shy, fish. Eat them."
- The Old Man And The Sea
Singular forms:
tuna: tuna
high heels: Not found
womenfolk: Not found
antelope: antelope
Plural forms:
tuna: tuna
high heels: high heels
womenfolk: womenfolk
antelope: antelope
Number forms:
antelope:
singular: antelope
plural: antelope
high heels:
plural: high heels
tuna:
plural: tuna
singular: tuna
womenfolk:
plural: womenfolk
Meanings and details:
antelope
(/ˈæn.tɪ.ləʊp/, /ˈæn.tə.loʊp/): noun1. meaning: Any of several African mammals of the family Bovidae distinguished by hollow horns, which, unlike deer, they do not shed.
2. meaning: The pronghorn, Antilocapra americana.
3. meaning: A fierce legendary creature said to live on the banks of the Euphrates, having long serrated horns and being hard to catch.
high heels
: noun1. meaning: A pair of high-heeled shoes.
example: I look sexier in high heels.
tuna
(/ˈtjuː.nə/, /ˈtjuː.nə/, /ˈtju.nə/): noun1. meaning: Any of several species of fish of the genus Thunnus in the family Scombridae.
2. meaning: The edible flesh of the tuna.
tuna
(/ˈtjuː.nə/, /ˈtjuː.nə/, /ˈtju.nə/): noun1. meaning: The prickly pear, a type of cactus native to Mexico in the genus Opuntia.
2. meaning: The fruit of the cactus.
womenfolk
: noun1. meaning: Women collectively.
2. meaning: The adult female members of a community.
problem_type: 5/30 (loop 0/0)
C:\ProgramData\Miniconda3\lib\site-packages\spacy\util.py:865: UserWarning: [W095] Model 'en_core_web_sm' (3.3.0) was trained with spaCy v3.3 and may not be 100% compatible with the current version (3.4.1). If you see errors or degraded performance, download a newer compatible model or retrain your custom model with the current spaCy version. For more details and available updates, run: python -m spacy validate warnings.warn(warn_msg)
Problem Template: _problem_noun_fill_blanks
Fill in the blanks using nouns given below.
Use punctuation or change the form of words if needed.
Words: inuit, beehive, shotgun, optimist
... It would take longer, so it was not time to worry yet. I waited until it was time to worry and listened for Mr. Radley's __________. Then I thought I heard the back fence squeak. It was wishful thinking.
- To Kill A Mockingbird
And Jim said you mustn't count the things you are going to cook for dinner, because that would bring bad luck. The same if you shook the table-cloth after sundown. And he said if a man owned a __________ and that man died, the bees must be told about it before sun-up next morning, or else the bees would all weaken down and quit work and die....
- The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
... If only we had some true friends, some who saw us as more than convenient tools for shaping their own desires! But to hell with that, I thought, I would remain and become a well-disciplined __________, and help them to go merrily to hell. If I couldn't help them to see the reality of our lives I would help them to ignore it until it exploded in their faces....
- Invisible Man By Ralph Ellison
Now Kotuko, who drew very well in the __________ fashion, scratched pictures of all these adventures on a long, flat piece of ivory with a hole at one end....
- The Jungle Book
Words: inuit, beehive, shotgun, optimist
Answer:
... It would take longer, so it was not time to worry yet. I waited until it was time to worry and listened for Mr. Radley's shotgun. Then I thought I heard the back fence squeak. It was wishful thinking.
- To Kill A Mockingbird
And Jim said you mustn't count the things you are going to cook for dinner, because that would bring bad luck. The same if you shook the table-cloth after sundown. And he said if a man owned a beehive and that man died, the bees must be told about it before sun-up next morning, or else the bees would all weaken down and quit work and die....
- The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
... If only we had some true friends, some who saw us as more than convenient tools for shaping their own desires! But to hell with that, I thought, I would remain and become a well-disciplined optimist, and help them to go merrily to hell. If I couldn't help them to see the reality of our lives I would help them to ignore it until it exploded in their faces....
- Invisible Man By Ralph Ellison
Now Kotuko, who drew very well in the Inuit fashion, scratched pictures of all these adventures on a long, flat piece of ivory with a hole at one end....
- The Jungle Book
- To Kill A Mockingbird
And Jim said you mustn't count the things you are going to cook for dinner, because that would bring bad luck. The same if you shook the table-cloth after sundown. And he said if a man owned a beehive and that man died, the bees must be told about it before sun-up next morning, or else the bees would all weaken down and quit work and die....
- The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
... If only we had some true friends, some who saw us as more than convenient tools for shaping their own desires! But to hell with that, I thought, I would remain and become a well-disciplined optimist, and help them to go merrily to hell. If I couldn't help them to see the reality of our lives I would help them to ignore it until it exploded in their faces....
- Invisible Man By Ralph Ellison
Now Kotuko, who drew very well in the Inuit fashion, scratched pictures of all these adventures on a long, flat piece of ivory with a hole at one end....
- The Jungle Book
Solution:
... It would take longer, so it was not time to worry yet. I waited until it was time to worry and listened for Mr. Radley's shotgun. Then I thought I heard the back fence squeak. It was wishful thinking.
- To Kill A Mockingbird
And Jim said you mustn't count the things you are going to cook for dinner, because that would bring bad luck. The same if you shook the table-cloth after sundown. And he said if a man owned a beehive and that man died, the bees must be told about it before sun-up next morning, or else the bees would all weaken down and quit work and die....
- The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
... If only we had some true friends, some who saw us as more than convenient tools for shaping their own desires! But to hell with that, I thought, I would remain and become a well-disciplined optimist, and help them to go merrily to hell. If I couldn't help them to see the reality of our lives I would help them to ignore it until it exploded in their faces....
- Invisible Man By Ralph Ellison
Now Kotuko, who drew very well in the Inuit fashion, scratched pictures of all these adventures on a long, flat piece of ivory with a hole at one end....
- The Jungle Book
More meanings and details:
beehives
(/ˈbiːhaɪvz/): noun1. meaning: A 12- to 13-year-old participant in the Young Women organization of the LDS Church.
beehives
(/ˈbiːhaɪvz/): noun: noun1. meaning: An enclosed structure in which some species of honey bees (genus Apis) live and raise their young.
2. meaning: A man-made structure in which bees are kept for their honey.
3. meaning: Any place full of activity, or in which people are very busy.
4. meaning: A women's hairstyle, popular in the 1960s, in which long hair is styled into a hive-shaped form on top of the head and usually held in place with lacquer.
5. meaning: A particular style of hat.
6. meaning: A type of anti-personnel ammunition round containing flechettes, and characterised by the buzzing sound made as they fly through the air.
7. meaning: In Conway's Game of Life, a particular still life configuration with a rounded appearance.
beehives
(/ˈbiːhaɪvz/): noun: noun: verb1. meaning: To fill (a place) with busy activity.
shotgun
(, /ˈʃɒtɡʌn/, /ˈʃɑtɡʌn/): noun1. meaning: A gun which fires loads typically consisting of small metal balls, called shot, from a cartridge.
example: Meat was cooked up within hours after the hunter killed the deer with his shotgun.
2. meaning: The front passenger seat in a vehicle, next to the driver; so called because the position of the shotgun-armed guard on a horse-drawn stage-coach, wagon train, or gold transport was next to the driver on a forward-mounted bench seat.
example: I call shotgun! (I claim the right to sit in the passenger seat.)
3. meaning: A one-story dwelling with no hallways or corridors, with the rooms arranged in a straight line.
example: Elvis Presley was born in a two-bedroom shotgun in Tupelo, Mississippi.
4. meaning: An offensive formation in which the quarterback receives the snap at a distance behind the center, often with a running back set to one or both sides of him.
5. meaning: (as a modifier) Relating to shotguns, either in a present or past sense: e.g. shotgun cartridges, shotgun seat.
6. meaning: (as a modifier) Relating to the threat of force or dubious means: e.g. shotgun wedding, shotgun diplomacy.
7. meaning: (as a modifier) Relating to the use of numerous, diverse or indiscriminate means to achieve a particular result: e.g. shotgun marketing, a shotgun approach.
shotgun
(, /ˈʃɒtɡʌn/, /ˈʃɑtɡʌn/): noun: verb1. meaning: (smoking) To inhale from a pipe or other smoking device, followed shortly by an exhalation into someone else’s mouth.
2. meaning: To verbally lay claim to (something)
example: I got a day off because I shotgunned it.
3. meaning: To hit the ball directly back at the pitcher.
4. meaning: To rapidly drink a beverage from a can by making a hole in the bottom of the can, placing the hole above one's mouth, and opening the top.
5. meaning: To send out many (requests, answers to a question, etc), especially in the hope that one obtains a positive result (i.e. reveals useful information, is correct, etc), in the manner of a shotgun firing many balls of shot such that one may hit a target.
6. meaning: To employ the technique of shotgun debugging.
shotguns
: noun1. meaning: A gun which fires loads typically consisting of small metal balls, called shot, from a cartridge.
example: Meat was cooked up within hours after the hunter killed the deer with his shotgun.
2. meaning: The front passenger seat in a vehicle, next to the driver; so called because the position of the shotgun-armed guard on a horse-drawn stage-coach, wagon train, or gold transport was next to the driver on a forward-mounted bench seat.
example: I call shotgun! (I claim the right to sit in the passenger seat.)
3. meaning: A one-story dwelling with no hallways or corridors, with the rooms arranged in a straight line.
example: Elvis Presley was born in a two-bedroom shotgun in Tupelo, Mississippi.
4. meaning: An offensive formation in which the quarterback receives the snap at a distance behind the center, often with a running back set to one or both sides of him.
5. meaning: (as a modifier) Relating to shotguns, either in a present or past sense: e.g. shotgun cartridges, shotgun seat.
6. meaning: (as a modifier) Relating to the threat of force or dubious means: e.g. shotgun wedding, shotgun diplomacy.
7. meaning: (as a modifier) Relating to the use of numerous, diverse or indiscriminate means to achieve a particular result: e.g. shotgun marketing, a shotgun approach.
shotguns
: noun: verb1. meaning: (smoking) To inhale from a pipe or other smoking device, followed shortly by an exhalation into someone else’s mouth.
2. meaning: To verbally lay claim to (something)
example: I got a day off because I shotgunned it.
3. meaning: To hit the ball directly back at the pitcher.
4. meaning: To rapidly drink a beverage from a can by making a hole in the bottom of the can, placing the hole above one's mouth, and opening the top.
5. meaning: To send out many (requests, answers to a question, etc), especially in the hope that one obtains a positive result (i.e. reveals useful information, is correct, etc), in the manner of a shotgun firing many balls of shot such that one may hit a target.
6. meaning: To employ the technique of shotgun debugging.
beehive
(/ˈbiːhaɪv/): noun1. meaning: A 12- to 13-year-old participant in the Young Women organization of the LDS Church.
beehive
(/ˈbiːhaɪv/): noun: noun1. meaning: An enclosed structure in which some species of honey bees (genus Apis) live and raise their young.
2. meaning: A man-made structure in which bees are kept for their honey.
3. meaning: Any place full of activity, or in which people are very busy.
4. meaning: A women's hairstyle, popular in the 1960s, in which long hair is styled into a hive-shaped form on top of the head and usually held in place with lacquer.
5. meaning: A particular style of hat.
6. meaning: A type of anti-personnel ammunition round containing flechettes, and characterised by the buzzing sound made as they fly through the air.
7. meaning: In Conway's Game of Life, a particular still life configuration with a rounded appearance.
beehive
(/ˈbiːhaɪv/): noun: noun: verb1. meaning: To fill (a place) with busy activity.
optimist
(/ˈɒptɪmɪst/, /ˈɑptɪmɪst/): noun1. meaning: A person who expects a favourable outcome
2. meaning: A believer in optimism
optimists
: noun1. meaning: A person who expects a favourable outcome
2. meaning: A believer in optimism
problem_type: 6/30 (loop 0/0)
Problem Template: _problem_pronoun_fill_blanks
Fill in the blanks using pronouns given below.
Use punctuation or change the form of words if needed.
Words: we, whoever, them, us, they, mines, mine
"A hundred rooms no one goes into," he said. "It sounds almost like a secret garden. Suppose __________ go and look at __________. Wheel me in my chair and nobody would know __________ went."
- The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
"I made __________ do it," he said. "Sometimes I don't like to see her looking at me. She smiles too much when I am ill and miserable. Besides, she is __________ and I don't want everyone to see her."
- The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
"Well, upon my word!" she said, speaking rather broad Yorkshire herself because there was no one to hear her and she was so astonished. "__________ heard th' like! __________ on earth would ha' thought it!"
- The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Words: we, whoever, them, us, they, mines, mine
Answer:
"A hundred rooms no one goes into," he said. "It sounds almost like a secret garden. Suppose we go and look at them. Wheel me in my chair and nobody would know we went."
- The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
"I made them do it," he said. "Sometimes I don't like to see her looking at me. She smiles too much when I am ill and miserable. Besides, she is mine and I don't want everyone to see her."
- The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
"Well, upon my word!" she said, speaking rather broad Yorkshire herself because there was no one to hear her and she was so astonished. "Whoever heard th' like! Whoever on earth would ha' thought it!"
- The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
- The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
"I made them do it," he said. "Sometimes I don't like to see her looking at me. She smiles too much when I am ill and miserable. Besides, she is mine and I don't want everyone to see her."
- The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
"Well, upon my word!" she said, speaking rather broad Yorkshire herself because there was no one to hear her and she was so astonished. "Whoever heard th' like! Whoever on earth would ha' thought it!"
- The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Solution:
"A hundred rooms no one goes into," he said. "It sounds almost like a secret garden. Suppose we go and look at them. Wheel me in my chair and nobody would know we went."
- The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
"I made them do it," he said. "Sometimes I don't like to see her looking at me. She smiles too much when I am ill and miserable. Besides, she is mine and I don't want everyone to see her."
- The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
"Well, upon my word!" she said, speaking rather broad Yorkshire herself because there was no one to hear her and she was so astonished. "Whoever heard th' like! Whoever on earth would ha' thought it!"
- The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Meanings:
mine: excavation of ores and minerals
More meanings and details:
mines
(/maɪnz/): noun1. meaning: Demeanor; facial expression or attitude, especially one which is intended by its bearer.
2. meaning: A specific facial expression.
mines
(/maɪnz/): noun: noun1. meaning: An excavation from which ore or solid minerals are taken, especially one consisting of underground tunnels.
2. meaning: Any source of wealth or resources.
3. meaning: A passage dug toward or underneath enemy lines, which is then packed with explosives.
4. meaning: A device intended to explode when stepped upon or touched, or when approached by a ship, vehicle, or person.
5. meaning: A type of firework that explodes on the ground, shooting sparks upward.
6. meaning: The cavity made by a caterpillar while feeding inside a leaf.
7. meaning: A machine or network of machines used to extract units of a cryptocurrency.
mines
(/maɪnz/): noun: noun: verb1. meaning: To remove (ore) from the ground.
2. meaning: To dig into, for ore or metal.
3. meaning: To sow mines (the explosive devices) in (an area).
4. meaning: To damage (a vehicle or ship) with a mine (an explosive device).
5. meaning: To dig a tunnel or hole; to burrow in the earth.
6. meaning: To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine.
7. meaning: (by extension) To ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means.
8. meaning: To pick one's nose.
9. meaning: To earn new units of cryptocurrency by doing certain calculations.
mines
(/maɪnz/): noun: noun: verb: pronoun1. meaning: Variation of mine, formed through analogy based on the final -s of the other possessive pronouns (ours, yours, hers, theirs, his)
ourselves
(/aʊəˈsɛlvz/, /aʊɚˈsɛlvz/): pronoun1. meaning: (reflexive pronoun) Us; the group including the speaker as the object of a verb or preposition when that group also is the subject.
example: We should keep this for ourselves.
2. meaning: We; intensifies the subject as the group including the speaker, especially to indicate that no one else satisfies the predicate.
example: We did it ourselves.
they
(/ðeɪ/, /ðeɪ/): pronoun1. meaning: (the third-person plural) A group of people, animals, plants or objects previously mentioned.
example: Dogs may bark if they want to be fed.
2. meaning: (the third-person singular, sometimes proscribed) A single person, previously mentioned, especially if of unknown or non-binary gender, but typically not if previously named and identified as male or female.
example: They requested a seat at Friday's performance but didn't say if they preferred the balcony or the floor.
3. meaning: (indefinite pronoun, vague meaning) People; some people; people in general; someone, excluding the speaker.
example: Ha, you believe the moon is real? That's just what they want you to think.
they
(/ðeɪ/, /ðeɪ/): pronoun1. meaning: There (especially as an expletive subject of be).
themselves
(/ðəmˈsɛlvz/): pronoun1. meaning: The reflexive case of they, the third-person plural personal pronoun. The group of people, animals or objects previously mentioned, as the object of a verb or following a preposition (also used for emphasis).
example: They are going to try climbing Mount Everest themselves.
2. meaning: The reflexive case of they, the third-person singular personal pronoun. The single person previously mentioned, as the object of a verb or following a preposition (also used for emphasis).
example: Everyone must do it themselves.
mine
(/maɪn/): pronoun1. meaning: My; belonging to me; that which belongs to me.
mine
(/maɪn/): noun1. meaning: An excavation from which ore or solid minerals are taken, especially one consisting of underground tunnels.
2. meaning: Any source of wealth or resources.
3. meaning: A passage dug toward or underneath enemy lines, which is then packed with explosives.
4. meaning: A device intended to explode when stepped upon or touched, or when approached by a ship, vehicle, or person.
5. meaning: A type of firework that explodes on the ground, shooting sparks upward.
6. meaning: The cavity made by a caterpillar while feeding inside a leaf.
7. meaning: A machine or network of machines used to extract units of a cryptocurrency.
mine
(/maɪn/): noun: verb1. meaning: To remove (ore) from the ground.
2. meaning: To dig into, for ore or metal.
3. meaning: To sow mines (the explosive devices) in (an area).
4. meaning: To damage (a vehicle or ship) with a mine (an explosive device).
5. meaning: To dig a tunnel or hole; to burrow in the earth.
6. meaning: To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine.
7. meaning: (by extension) To ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means.
8. meaning: To pick one's nose.
9. meaning: To earn new units of cryptocurrency by doing certain calculations.
mine
(/maɪn/): noun1. meaning: Demeanor; facial expression or attitude, especially one which is intended by its bearer.
2. meaning: A specific facial expression.
mined
(/maɪnd/): verb1. meaning: To remove (ore) from the ground.
2. meaning: To dig into, for ore or metal.
3. meaning: To sow mines (the explosive devices) in (an area).
4. meaning: To damage (a vehicle or ship) with a mine (an explosive device).
5. meaning: To dig a tunnel or hole; to burrow in the earth.
6. meaning: To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine.
7. meaning: (by extension) To ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means.
8. meaning: To pick one's nose.
9. meaning: To earn new units of cryptocurrency by doing certain calculations.
whoever
(/huˈɛvə/, /huˈɛvɚ/): pronoun1. meaning: (interrogative) Who ever: an emphatic form of who.
example: Whoever thought up that stupid idea?
2. meaning: (fused relative) Any person or persons that.
example: Whoever breaks the law will be punished.
3. meaning: (fused relative) The person that (no matter who).
example: I don't know what it is. Ask whoever put it there.
4. meaning: Regardless of the person or persons that.
example: Whoever stole the painting, the police will catch the thief in no time.
5. meaning: Any person or persons.
example: I don't care who gets it; give it to whoever.
6. meaning: Misspelling of who ever other than in interrogative use.
example: *He is the tallest man whoever lived. (incorrect usage)
ours
(/ɑːz/, /ɑɹz/): pronoun1. meaning: That which belongs to us; the possessive case of we, used without a following noun.
mining
(/ˈmaɪnɪŋ/): verb1. meaning: To remove (ore) from the ground.
2. meaning: To dig into, for ore or metal.
3. meaning: To sow mines (the explosive devices) in (an area).
4. meaning: To damage (a vehicle or ship) with a mine (an explosive device).
5. meaning: To dig a tunnel or hole; to burrow in the earth.
6. meaning: To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine.
7. meaning: (by extension) To ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means.
8. meaning: To pick one's nose.
9. meaning: To earn new units of cryptocurrency by doing certain calculations.
mining
(/ˈmaɪnɪŋ/): verb: noun1. meaning: The activity of removing solid valuables from the earth.
example: gold mining
2. meaning: Any activity that extracts or undermines.
example: His extensive mining for apparently statistically significant results made any of his results questionable.
3. meaning: The activity of placing explosives underground, rigged to explode
4. meaning: Creation of new units of cryptocurrency by validating transactions and demonstrating proof-of-work
we
(/wiː/, /wi/): pronoun1. meaning: (personal) The speakers/writers, or the speaker/writer and at least one other person (not the person being addressed). (This is the exclusive we.)
2. meaning: (personal) The speaker(s)/writer(s) and the person(s) being addressed. (This is the inclusive we.)
3. meaning: (personal) The speaker/writer alone. (This use of we is the editorial we, used by writers and others, including royalty—the royal we—as a less personal substitute for I. The reflexive case of this sense of we is ourself.)
4. meaning: (personal) The plural form of you, including everyone being addressed.
example: How are we all tonight?
5. meaning: (personal, often considered patronising) A second- or third-person pronoun for a person in the speaker's care.
example: How are we feeling this morning?
you
(/jʉː/, /jə/, /juː/, /ju/, /ju/, /jə/): verb1. meaning: To address (a person) using the pronoun you (in the past, especially to use you rather than thou, when you was considered more formal).
you
(/jʉː/, /jə/, /juː/, /ju/, /ju/, /jə/): verb: pronoun1. meaning: (object pronoun) The people spoken, or written to, as an object.
example: Both of you should get ready now.
2. meaning: (reflexive pronoun) (To) yourselves, (to) yourself.
3. meaning: (object pronoun) The person spoken to or written to, as an object. (Replacing thee; originally as a mark of respect.)
4. meaning: (subject pronoun) The people spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Replacing ye.)
example: You are all supposed to do as I tell you.
5. meaning: (subject pronoun) The person spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Originally as a mark of respect.)
6. meaning: (indefinite personal pronoun) Anyone, one; an unspecified individual or group of individuals (as subject or object).
them
(, /ðʌm/): pronoun1. meaning: (plural) Those ones.
2. meaning: (singular) Him, her, or it; that one.
theirs
(/ðɛəz/, /ðɛɚz/): pronoun1. meaning: That which belongs to them; the possessive case of they, used without a following noun.
us
(/əs/, , /əs/): pronoun1. meaning: (personal) Me and at least one other person; the objective case of we.
2. meaning: (chiefly with give) Me.
example: Give us a look at your paper.
3. meaning: Our.
example: We'll have to throw us food out.
4. meaning: Me (in all contexts).
example: Could you do that for us?
problem_type: 7/30 (loop 0/0)
Problem Template: _problem_adjective_fill_blanks
Fill in the blanks using adjectives given below.
Use punctuation or change the form of words if needed.
Words: nonnegotiable, tiny, scathing, chubby
... Fairlie, after first relieving himself by a gentle sigh, let the book drop open with one hand, and held up the __________ brush with the other, as a sign to the servant to wait for further orders.
- The Woman In White
The Count stroked one of his white mice reflectively with his __________ little finger before he answered.
- The Woman In White
"However did you make such a mistake?" said Fielding, more friendly than before, but __________ and scornful. "It's almost unbelievable. I should think I wrote you half a dozen times, mentioning my wife by name....
- A Passage To India By E. M. Forster
... They were firmly convinced that his real purpose (no matter what he told them) would always be something he would not say, and they themselves, when they did speak out, said many things, but never what their real purpose was. Moreover (Levin felt that the bilious landowner had been right), the peasants set their first and __________ condition for any kind of agreement that they not be forced to take up any new farming methods or use new implements....
- Anna Karenina
Words: nonnegotiable, tiny, scathing, chubby
Answer:
... Fairlie, after first relieving himself by a gentle sigh, let the book drop open with one hand, and held up the tiny brush with the other, as a sign to the servant to wait for further orders.
- The Woman In White
The Count stroked one of his white mice reflectively with his chubby little finger before he answered.
- The Woman In White
"However did you make such a mistake?" said Fielding, more friendly than before, but scathing and scornful. "It's almost unbelievable. I should think I wrote you half a dozen times, mentioning my wife by name....
- A Passage To India By E. M. Forster
... They were firmly convinced that his real purpose (no matter what he told them) would always be something he would not say, and they themselves, when they did speak out, said many things, but never what their real purpose was. Moreover (Levin felt that the bilious landowner had been right), the peasants set their first and nonnegotiable condition for any kind of agreement that they not be forced to take up any new farming methods or use new implements....
- Anna Karenina
- The Woman In White
The Count stroked one of his white mice reflectively with his chubby little finger before he answered.
- The Woman In White
"However did you make such a mistake?" said Fielding, more friendly than before, but scathing and scornful. "It's almost unbelievable. I should think I wrote you half a dozen times, mentioning my wife by name....
- A Passage To India By E. M. Forster
... They were firmly convinced that his real purpose (no matter what he told them) would always be something he would not say, and they themselves, when they did speak out, said many things, but never what their real purpose was. Moreover (Levin felt that the bilious landowner had been right), the peasants set their first and nonnegotiable condition for any kind of agreement that they not be forced to take up any new farming methods or use new implements....
- Anna Karenina
Solution:
... Fairlie, after first relieving himself by a gentle sigh, let the book drop open with one hand, and held up the tiny brush with the other, as a sign to the servant to wait for further orders.
- The Woman In White
The Count stroked one of his white mice reflectively with his chubby little finger before he answered.
- The Woman In White
"However did you make such a mistake?" said Fielding, more friendly than before, but scathing and scornful. "It's almost unbelievable. I should think I wrote you half a dozen times, mentioning my wife by name....
- A Passage To India By E. M. Forster
... They were firmly convinced that his real purpose (no matter what he told them) would always be something he would not say, and they themselves, when they did speak out, said many things, but never what their real purpose was. Moreover (Levin felt that the bilious landowner had been right), the peasants set their first and nonnegotiable condition for any kind of agreement that they not be forced to take up any new farming methods or use new implements....
- Anna Karenina
More meanings and details:
scathing
: verb1. meaning: To injure or harm.
2. meaning: To blast; scorch; wither.
scathing
: verb: adjective1. meaning: Harshly or bitterly critical; vitriolic
2. meaning: Harmful or painful; acerbic
chubbier
: adjective1. meaning: Of a person: slightly overweight, somewhat fat, and hence plump, rounded, and soft.
example: Obviously the chubby child was eating too much.
synonyms: chunky, plump, podgy, tubby
2. meaning: Of a body part: containing a moderate amount of fat.
example: It’s quite normal for babies to have chubby cheeks.
synonyms: chunky, plump, podgy
chubbiest
: adjective1. meaning: Of a person: slightly overweight, somewhat fat, and hence plump, rounded, and soft.
example: Obviously the chubby child was eating too much.
synonyms: chunky, plump, podgy, tubby
2. meaning: Of a body part: containing a moderate amount of fat.
example: It’s quite normal for babies to have chubby cheeks.
synonyms: chunky, plump, podgy
tiniest
: adjective1. meaning: Very small.
nonnegotiable
: noun1. meaning: Something that is not negotiable.
nonnegotiable
: noun: adjective1. meaning: Not negotiable; not subject to negotiation.
tinier
: adjective1. meaning: Very small.
chubby
(/ˈtʃʌbi/): noun1. meaning: A chubby, plump person
2. meaning: An overweight or obese gay man.
3. meaning: A penile erection, especially when short and with a large circumference; a boner.
chubby
(/ˈtʃʌbi/): noun: adjective1. meaning: Of a person: slightly overweight, somewhat fat, and hence plump, rounded, and soft.
example: Obviously the chubby child was eating too much.
synonyms: chunky, plump, podgy, tubby
2. meaning: Of a body part: containing a moderate amount of fat.
example: It’s quite normal for babies to have chubby cheeks.
synonyms: chunky, plump, podgy
tiny
(/ˈtaɪni/): noun1. meaning: A small child; an infant.
2. meaning: Anything very small.
tiny
(/ˈtaɪni/): noun: adjective1. meaning: Very small.
problem_type: 8/30 (loop 0/0)
Problem Template: _problem_verb_fill_blanks
Fill in the blanks using verbs given below.
Use punctuation or change the form of words if needed.
Words: clock, mantle, welsh, bookmark
... Then she put a new card in her jenny. Paul watched her. She sat square and magnificent. Her throat and arms were bare. The blood still __________ below her ears; she bent her head in shame of her humility. Her face was set on her work. Her arms were creamy and full of life beside the white lace; her large, well-kept hands worked with a balanced movement, as if nothing would hurry them....
- Sons And Lovers
Nurse did not come that night to settle Mrs. Morel down. Paul went up with the hot milk in a feeding-cup. It was nine o'__________.
... Although the stories are marked by the culture in which they were produced, they remain popular and have been translated into dozens of languages, including Estonian, __________, Finnish, Japanese, Yiddish, and Telugu.
... Then I remembered that, in the famous breviary, which was sitting on the table beside me, I had seen an old piece of paper, partly yellowed with age, which appeared to serve as a __________ and which had been handed down as such through the ages, preserved by the veneration of Cardinal Spada's heirs....
Words: clock, mantle, welsh, bookmark
Answer:
... Then she put a new card in her jenny. Paul watched her. She sat square and magnificent. Her throat and arms were bare. The blood still mantled below her ears; she bent her head in shame of her humility. Her face was set on her work. Her arms were creamy and full of life beside the white lace; her large, well-kept hands worked with a balanced movement, as if nothing would hurry them....
- Sons And Lovers
Nurse did not come that night to settle Mrs. Morel down. Paul went up with the hot milk in a feeding-cup. It was nine o'clock.
... Although the stories are marked by the culture in which they were produced, they remain popular and have been translated into dozens of languages, including Estonian, Welsh, Finnish, Japanese, Yiddish, and Telugu.
... Then I remembered that, in the famous breviary, which was sitting on the table beside me, I had seen an old piece of paper, partly yellowed with age, which appeared to serve as a bookmark and which had been handed down as such through the ages, preserved by the veneration of Cardinal Spada's heirs....
- Sons And Lovers
Nurse did not come that night to settle Mrs. Morel down. Paul went up with the hot milk in a feeding-cup. It was nine o'clock.
... Although the stories are marked by the culture in which they were produced, they remain popular and have been translated into dozens of languages, including Estonian, Welsh, Finnish, Japanese, Yiddish, and Telugu.
... Then I remembered that, in the famous breviary, which was sitting on the table beside me, I had seen an old piece of paper, partly yellowed with age, which appeared to serve as a bookmark and which had been handed down as such through the ages, preserved by the veneration of Cardinal Spada's heirs....
Solution:
... Then she put a new card in her jenny. Paul watched her. She sat square and magnificent. Her throat and arms were bare. The blood still mantled below her ears; she bent her head in shame of her humility. Her face was set on her work. Her arms were creamy and full of life beside the white lace; her large, well-kept hands worked with a balanced movement, as if nothing would hurry them....
- Sons And Lovers
Nurse did not come that night to settle Mrs. Morel down. Paul went up with the hot milk in a feeding-cup. It was nine o'clock.
... Although the stories are marked by the culture in which they were produced, they remain popular and have been translated into dozens of languages, including Estonian, Welsh, Finnish, Japanese, Yiddish, and Telugu.
... Then I remembered that, in the famous breviary, which was sitting on the table beside me, I had seen an old piece of paper, partly yellowed with age, which appeared to serve as a bookmark and which had been handed down as such through the ages, preserved by the veneration of Cardinal Spada's heirs....
Meanings:
clock: timepiece
More meanings and details:
mantled
: verb1. meaning: To cover or conceal (something); to cloak; to disguise.
2. meaning: To become covered or concealed.
3. meaning: To spread like a mantle (especially of blood in the face and cheeks when a person flushes).
mantled
: verb: adjective1. meaning: Dressed in a mantle.
example: a sculpture of a mantled figure
clocks
: noun1. meaning: An instrument used to measure or keep track of time; a non-portable timepiece.
2. meaning: The odometer of a motor vehicle.
example: This car has over 300,000 miles on the clock.
3. meaning: An electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuits of semiconductor chips or modules.
4. meaning: The seed head of a dandelion.
5. meaning: A time clock.
example: I can't go off to lunch yet: I'm still on the clock.
6. meaning: A CPU clock cycle, or T-state.
clocks
: noun: verb1. meaning: To measure the duration of.
synonyms: time
2. meaning: To measure the speed of.
example: He was clocked at 155 miles per hour.
3. meaning: To hit (someone) heavily.
example: When the boxer let down his guard, his opponent clocked him.
synonyms: slug, smack, thump, whack
4. meaning: To take notice of; to realise; to recognize someone or something
example: A trans person may be able to easily clock other trans people.
synonyms: check out, scope out
5. meaning: To falsify the reading of the odometer of a vehicle.
example: I don't believe that car has done only 40,000 miles. It's been clocked.
synonyms: turn back (the vehicle's) clock, wind back (the vehicle's) clock
6. meaning: To beat a video game.
example: Have you clocked that game yet?
clocks
: noun: verb: noun1. meaning: A pattern near the heel of a sock or stocking.
clocks
: noun: verb: noun: verb1. meaning: To ornament (e.g. the side of a stocking) with figured work.
clocks
: noun: verb: noun: verb: noun1. meaning: A large beetle, especially the European dung beetle (Geotrupes stercorarius).
clocks
: noun: verb: noun: verb: noun: verb1. meaning: To make the sound of a hen; to cluck.
2. meaning: To hatch.
mantle
(/ˈmæn.təl/, /ˈmæn.təl/): noun1. meaning: The shelf above a fireplace which may be also a structural support for the masonry of the chimney.
2. meaning: A maneuver to surmount a ledge, involving pushing down on the ledge to bring up the body. Also called a mantelshelf.
mantle
(/ˈmæn.təl/, /ˈmæn.təl/): noun: noun1. meaning: A piece of clothing somewhat like an open robe or cloak, especially that worn by Orthodox bishops. (Compare mantum.)
2. meaning: A figurative garment representing authority or status, capable of affording protection.
example: At the meeting, she finally assumed the mantle of leadership of the party.
3. meaning: Anything that covers or conceals something else; a cloak.
4. meaning: The body wall of a mollusc, from which the shell is secreted.
5. meaning: The back of a bird together with the folded wings.
6. meaning: The zone of hot gases around a flame.
7. meaning: A gauzy fabric impregnated with metal nitrates, used in some kinds of gas and oil lamps and lanterns, which forms a rigid but fragile mesh of metal oxides when heated during initial use and then produces white light from the heat of the flame below it. (So called because it is hung above the lamp's flame like a mantel.)
8. meaning: The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth.
9. meaning: A penstock for a water wheel.
10. meaning: The cerebral cortex.
11. meaning: The layer between the Earth's core and crust.
12. meaning: A mantling.
mantle
(/ˈmæn.təl/, /ˈmæn.təl/): noun: noun: verb1. meaning: To cover or conceal (something); to cloak; to disguise.
2. meaning: To become covered or concealed.
3. meaning: To spread like a mantle (especially of blood in the face and cheeks when a person flushes).
welshed
: verb1. meaning: To swindle someone by not paying a debt, especially a gambling debt.
welsh
(/wɛlʃ/, ): verb1. meaning: To swindle someone by not paying a debt, especially a gambling debt.
bookmarking
: verb1. meaning: To create a bookmark.
mantles
: noun1. meaning: The shelf above a fireplace which may be also a structural support for the masonry of the chimney.
2. meaning: A maneuver to surmount a ledge, involving pushing down on the ledge to bring up the body. Also called a mantelshelf.
mantles
: noun: noun1. meaning: A piece of clothing somewhat like an open robe or cloak, especially that worn by Orthodox bishops. (Compare mantum.)
2. meaning: A figurative garment representing authority or status, capable of affording protection.
example: At the meeting, she finally assumed the mantle of leadership of the party.
3. meaning: Anything that covers or conceals something else; a cloak.
4. meaning: The body wall of a mollusc, from which the shell is secreted.
5. meaning: The back of a bird together with the folded wings.
6. meaning: The zone of hot gases around a flame.
7. meaning: A gauzy fabric impregnated with metal nitrates, used in some kinds of gas and oil lamps and lanterns, which forms a rigid but fragile mesh of metal oxides when heated during initial use and then produces white light from the heat of the flame below it. (So called because it is hung above the lamp's flame like a mantel.)
8. meaning: The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth.
9. meaning: A penstock for a water wheel.
10. meaning: The cerebral cortex.
11. meaning: The layer between the Earth's core and crust.
12. meaning: A mantling.
bookmarks
: noun1. meaning: A strip of material used to mark a place in a book.
2. meaning: A record of the address of a file or Internet page serving as a shortcut to it.
synonyms: favourites
3. meaning: A pointer found in a nonclustered index to a row in a clustered index or a table heap
bookmarks
: noun: verb1. meaning: To create a bookmark.
welshes
: verb1. meaning: To swindle someone by not paying a debt, especially a gambling debt.
clocking
: verb1. meaning: To measure the duration of.
synonyms: time
2. meaning: To measure the speed of.
example: He was clocked at 155 miles per hour.
3. meaning: To hit (someone) heavily.
example: When the boxer let down his guard, his opponent clocked him.
synonyms: slug, smack, thump, whack
4. meaning: To take notice of; to realise; to recognize someone or something
example: A trans person may be able to easily clock other trans people.
synonyms: check out, scope out
5. meaning: To falsify the reading of the odometer of a vehicle.
example: I don't believe that car has done only 40,000 miles. It's been clocked.
synonyms: turn back (the vehicle's) clock, wind back (the vehicle's) clock
6. meaning: To beat a video game.
example: Have you clocked that game yet?
clocking
: verb: verb1. meaning: To ornament (e.g. the side of a stocking) with figured work.
clocking
: verb: verb: verb1. meaning: To make the sound of a hen; to cluck.
2. meaning: To hatch.
clocking
: verb: verb: verb: noun1. meaning: A time measurement made according to a clock.
bookmarked
: verb1. meaning: To create a bookmark.
clocked
: verb1. meaning: To measure the duration of.
synonyms: time
2. meaning: To measure the speed of.
example: He was clocked at 155 miles per hour.
3. meaning: To hit (someone) heavily.
example: When the boxer let down his guard, his opponent clocked him.
synonyms: slug, smack, thump, whack
4. meaning: To take notice of; to realise; to recognize someone or something
example: A trans person may be able to easily clock other trans people.
synonyms: check out, scope out
5. meaning: To falsify the reading of the odometer of a vehicle.
example: I don't believe that car has done only 40,000 miles. It's been clocked.
synonyms: turn back (the vehicle's) clock, wind back (the vehicle's) clock
6. meaning: To beat a video game.
example: Have you clocked that game yet?
clocked
: verb: verb1. meaning: To ornament (e.g. the side of a stocking) with figured work.
clocked
: verb: verb: verb1. meaning: To make the sound of a hen; to cluck.
2. meaning: To hatch.
clocked
: verb: verb: verb: adjective1. meaning: Embroidered with clocks.
2. meaning: Electronically running at a particular rate; governed by a repetitive time signal.
3. meaning: Of a motor vehicle: having had its odometer turned back so as to display a lower mileage.
mantling
: verb1. meaning: To cover or conceal (something); to cloak; to disguise.
2. meaning: To become covered or concealed.
3. meaning: To spread like a mantle (especially of blood in the face and cheeks when a person flushes).
mantling
: verb: noun1. meaning: The representation of a mantle, or the drapery behind and around a coat of arms.
2. meaning: Cloth suitable for making mantles.
clock
(/klɒk/, /klɑk/): noun1. meaning: An instrument used to measure or keep track of time; a non-portable timepiece.
2. meaning: The odometer of a motor vehicle.
example: This car has over 300,000 miles on the clock.
3. meaning: An electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuits of semiconductor chips or modules.
4. meaning: The seed head of a dandelion.
5. meaning: A time clock.
example: I can't go off to lunch yet: I'm still on the clock.
6. meaning: A CPU clock cycle, or T-state.
clock
(/klɒk/, /klɑk/): noun: verb1. meaning: To measure the duration of.
synonyms: time
2. meaning: To measure the speed of.
example: He was clocked at 155 miles per hour.
3. meaning: To hit (someone) heavily.
example: When the boxer let down his guard, his opponent clocked him.
synonyms: slug, smack, thump, whack
4. meaning: To take notice of; to realise; to recognize someone or something
example: A trans person may be able to easily clock other trans people.
synonyms: check out, scope out
5. meaning: To falsify the reading of the odometer of a vehicle.
example: I don't believe that car has done only 40,000 miles. It's been clocked.
synonyms: turn back (the vehicle's) clock, wind back (the vehicle's) clock
6. meaning: To beat a video game.
example: Have you clocked that game yet?
clock
(/klɒk/, /klɑk/): noun1. meaning: A pattern near the heel of a sock or stocking.
clock
(/klɒk/, /klɑk/): noun: verb1. meaning: To ornament (e.g. the side of a stocking) with figured work.
clock
(/klɒk/, /klɑk/): noun1. meaning: A large beetle, especially the European dung beetle (Geotrupes stercorarius).
clock
(/klɒk/, /klɑk/): verb1. meaning: To make the sound of a hen; to cluck.
2. meaning: To hatch.
welshing
: verb1. meaning: To swindle someone by not paying a debt, especially a gambling debt.
bookmark
(/ˈbʊkmɑɹk/): noun1. meaning: A strip of material used to mark a place in a book.
2. meaning: A record of the address of a file or Internet page serving as a shortcut to it.
synonyms: favourites
3. meaning: A pointer found in a nonclustered index to a row in a clustered index or a table heap
bookmark
(/ˈbʊkmɑɹk/): noun: verb1. meaning: To create a bookmark.
problem_type: 9/30 (loop 0/0)
Problem Template: _problem_adverb_fill_blanks
Fill in the blanks using adverbs given below.
Use punctuation or change the form of words if needed.
Words: freely, anew, only, nightly
Jem and I had heard the same sermon Sunday after Sunday, with __________ one exception. Reverend Sykes used his pulpit more __________ to express his views on individual lapses from grace: Jim Hardy had been absent from church for five Sundays and he wasn't sick; Constance Jackson had better watch her ways-she was in grave danger for quarreling with her neighbors; she had erected the __________ spite fence in the history of the Quarters....
- To Kill A Mockingbird
... Such preparations completed, he moved, backward, towards the door: dragging the dog with him, lest he should soil his feet __________ and carry out new evidence of the crime into the streets. He shut the door softly, locked it, took the key, and left the house....
- Oliver Twist
... Some houses which had become insecure from age and decay, were prevented from falling into the street, by huge beams of wood reared against the walls, and firmly planted in the road; but even these crazy dens seemed to have been selected as the __________ haunts of some houseless wretches, for many of the rough boards which supplied the place of door and window, were wrenched from their positions, to afford an aperture wide enough for the passage of a human body....
Words: freely, anew, only, nightly
Answer:
Jem and I had heard the same sermon Sunday after Sunday, with only one exception. Reverend Sykes used his pulpit more freely to express his views on individual lapses from grace: Jim Hardy had been absent from church for five Sundays and he wasn't sick; Constance Jackson had better watch her ways-she was in grave danger for quarreling with her neighbors; she had erected the only spite fence in the history of the Quarters....
- To Kill A Mockingbird
... Such preparations completed, he moved, backward, towards the door: dragging the dog with him, lest he should soil his feet anew and carry out new evidence of the crime into the streets. He shut the door softly, locked it, took the key, and left the house....
- Oliver Twist
... Some houses which had become insecure from age and decay, were prevented from falling into the street, by huge beams of wood reared against the walls, and firmly planted in the road; but even these crazy dens seemed to have been selected as the nightly haunts of some houseless wretches, for many of the rough boards which supplied the place of door and window, were wrenched from their positions, to afford an aperture wide enough for the passage of a human body....
- To Kill A Mockingbird
... Such preparations completed, he moved, backward, towards the door: dragging the dog with him, lest he should soil his feet anew and carry out new evidence of the crime into the streets. He shut the door softly, locked it, took the key, and left the house....
- Oliver Twist
... Some houses which had become insecure from age and decay, were prevented from falling into the street, by huge beams of wood reared against the walls, and firmly planted in the road; but even these crazy dens seemed to have been selected as the nightly haunts of some houseless wretches, for many of the rough boards which supplied the place of door and window, were wrenched from their positions, to afford an aperture wide enough for the passage of a human body....
Solution:
Jem and I had heard the same sermon Sunday after Sunday, with only one exception. Reverend Sykes used his pulpit more freely to express his views on individual lapses from grace: Jim Hardy had been absent from church for five Sundays and he wasn't sick; Constance Jackson had better watch her ways-she was in grave danger for quarreling with her neighbors; she had erected the only spite fence in the history of the Quarters....
- To Kill A Mockingbird
... Such preparations completed, he moved, backward, towards the door: dragging the dog with him, lest he should soil his feet anew and carry out new evidence of the crime into the streets. He shut the door softly, locked it, took the key, and left the house....
- Oliver Twist
... Some houses which had become insecure from age and decay, were prevented from falling into the street, by huge beams of wood reared against the walls, and firmly planted in the road; but even these crazy dens seemed to have been selected as the nightly haunts of some houseless wretches, for many of the rough boards which supplied the place of door and window, were wrenched from their positions, to afford an aperture wide enough for the passage of a human body....
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only
(/ˈəʊn.li/, /ˈoʊn.li/): noun1. meaning: An only child.
only
(/ˈəʊn.li/, /ˈoʊn.li/): noun: adjective1. meaning: Alone in a category.
example: He is the only doctor for miles.
2. meaning: Singularly superior; the best.
3. meaning: Without sibling; without a sibling of the same gender.
example: He is their only son, in fact, an only child.
4. meaning: Mere.
only
(/ˈəʊn.li/, /ˈoʊn.li/): noun: adjective: adverb1. meaning: Without others or anything further; exclusively.
example: My heart is hers, and hers only.
2. meaning: No more than; just.
example: If there were only one more ticket!
3. meaning: As recently as.
example: He left only moments ago.
4. meaning: Used to express surprise or consternation at an action.
example: She's only gone and run off with the milkman!
5. meaning: Introduces a disappointing or surprising outcome that renders futile something previously mentioned. See also only to, only for.
example: I helped him out only for him to betray me.
6. meaning: Above all others; particularly.
only
(/ˈəʊn.li/, /ˈoʊn.li/): noun: adjective: adverb: conjunction1. meaning: Under the condition that; but.
example: You're welcome to borrow my bicycle, only please take care of it.
2. meaning: But; except.
example: I would enjoy running, only I have this broken leg.
freely
(/ˈfɹili/): adjective1. meaning: Free; frank.
2. meaning: Generous; noble; excellent; beautiful; lovely.
freely
(/ˈfɹili/): adverb1. meaning: In a free manner.
example: Wine was flowing freely.
2. meaning: Without interference or restriction.
example: talk freely
3. meaning: Of one's own free will.
example: I will freely help you.
anew
(/əˈnjuː/, /əˈnu/): adverb1. meaning: Again, once more; afresh, in a new way, newly.
example: Each morning, opportunity—like the sun—dawns anew.
nightly
(/ˈnaɪtli/): adjective1. meaning: Happening or appearing in the night; night-time; nocturnal.
example: A cobweb spread above a blossom Is sufficient to protect It from nightly chill. — Tyndall.
2. meaning: Performing, occurring, or taking place every night.
example: The dog demanded to go out for his nightly walk.
3. meaning: Used in the night.
nightly
(/ˈnaɪtli/): noun1. meaning: A build of a software program with the latest changes, released every night.
nightly
(/ˈnaɪtli/): noun: adverb1. meaning: Every night.
example: He checks his email nightly.
problem_type: 10/30 (loop 0/0)
Problem Template: _problem_preposition_fill_blanks
Fill in the blanks using prepositions given below.
Use punctuation or change the form of words if needed.
Words: per, at, but, since
Mrs. Dashwood looked with pleasure __________ Marianne, whose fine eyes were fixed so expressively on Willoughby, as plainly denoted how well she understood him.
'Yes, a great while; ever __________ my sister married.- He was a particular friend of Sir John's. I believe,' she added in a low voice, 'he would have been very glad to have had me, if he could. Sir John and Lady Middleton wished it very much. __________ mama did not think the match good enough for me, otherwise Sir John would have mentioned it to the Colonel, and we should have been married immediately....
To her dress and appearance she was grown so perfectly indifferent, as not to bestow half the consideration on it, during the whole of her toilet, which it received from Miss Steele in the first five minutes of their being together, when it was finished....
Words: per, at, but, since
Answer:
Mrs. Dashwood looked with pleasure at Marianne, whose fine eyes were fixed so expressively on Willoughby, as plainly denoted how well she understood him.
'Yes, a great while; ever since my sister married.- He was a particular friend of Sir John's. I believe,' she added in a low voice, 'he would have been very glad to have had me, if he could. Sir John and Lady Middleton wished it very much. But mama did not think the match good enough for me, otherwise Sir John would have mentioned it to the Colonel, and we should have been married immediately....
To her dress and appearance she was grown so perfectly indifferent, as not to bestow half the consideration on it, during the whole of her toilet, which it received from Miss Steele in the first five minutes of their being together, when it was finished....
'Yes, a great while; ever since my sister married.- He was a particular friend of Sir John's. I believe,' she added in a low voice, 'he would have been very glad to have had me, if he could. Sir John and Lady Middleton wished it very much. But mama did not think the match good enough for me, otherwise Sir John would have mentioned it to the Colonel, and we should have been married immediately....
To her dress and appearance she was grown so perfectly indifferent, as not to bestow half the consideration on it, during the whole of her toilet, which it received from Miss Steele in the first five minutes of their being together, when it was finished....
Solution:
Mrs. Dashwood looked with pleasure at Marianne, whose fine eyes were fixed so expressively on Willoughby, as plainly denoted how well she understood him.
'Yes, a great while; ever since my sister married.- He was a particular friend of Sir John's. I believe,' she added in a low voice, 'he would have been very glad to have had me, if he could. Sir John and Lady Middleton wished it very much. But mama did not think the match good enough for me, otherwise Sir John would have mentioned it to the Colonel, and we should have been married immediately....
To her dress and appearance she was grown so perfectly indifferent, as not to bestow half the consideration on it, during the whole of her toilet, which it received from Miss Steele in the first five minutes of their being together, when it was finished....
More meanings and details:
but
(, /bʊt/, /bʊt/, /bʌt/, , /bʌt/): noun1. meaning: An instance or example of using the word "but".
example: It has to be done – no ifs or buts.
2. meaning: The outer room of a small two-room cottage.
3. meaning: A limit; a boundary.
4. meaning: The end; especially the larger or thicker end, or the blunt, in distinction from the sharp, end; the butt.
but
(, /bʊt/, /bʊt/, /bʌt/, , /bʌt/): noun: verb1. meaning: Use the word "but".
example: But me no buts.
but
(, /bʊt/, /bʊt/, /bʌt/, , /bʌt/): noun: verb: adverb1. meaning: Merely, only, just.
example: Christmas comes but once a year.
2. meaning: Though, however.
example: I'll have to go home early but.
3. meaning: Used as an intensifier.
example: Nobody, but nobody, crosses me and gets away with it.
but
(, /bʊt/, /bʊt/, /bʌt/, , /bʌt/): noun: verb: adverb: preposition1. meaning: Apart from, except (for), excluding.
example: Everyone but Father left early.
2. meaning: (obsolete outside Scotland) Outside of.
but
(, /bʊt/, /bʊt/, /bʌt/, , /bʌt/): noun: verb: adverb: preposition: conjunction1. meaning: On the contrary, rather (as a regular adversative conjunction, introducing a word or clause in contrast or contradiction with the preceding negative clause or sentence).
example: I am not rich but [I am] poor not John but Peter went there.
2. meaning: However, although, nevertheless, on the other hand (introducing a clause contrary to prior belief or in contrast with the preceding clause or sentence).
example: She is very old but still attractive.
3. meaning: Except that (introducing a subordinate clause which qualifies a negative statement); also, with omission of the subject of the subordinate clause, acting as a negative relative, "except one that", "except such that".
example: I cannot but feel offended.
4. meaning: Without its also being the case that; unless that (introducing a necessary concomitant).
example: It never rains but it pours.
5. meaning: Except with; unless with; without.
6. meaning: Only; solely; merely.
7. meaning: Until.
8. meaning: (following a negated expression of improbability) That.
since
(/sɪns/): adverb1. meaning: From a specified time in the past.
example: A short/long time since
since
(/sɪns/): adverb: preposition1. meaning: From: referring to a period of time ending in the present and defining it by the point in time at which it started, or the period in which its starting point occurred.
since
(/sɪns/): adverb: preposition: conjunction1. meaning: From the time that.
example: I have loved you since I first met you.
2. meaning: Because.
example: Since you didn't call, we left without you.
3. meaning: When or that.
per
(/pɜː(ɹ)/, /pɝ/): preposition1. meaning: For each.
example: $2.50 per dozen
2. meaning: To each, in each (used in expressing ratios of units).
example: 100 centimeters per meter
3. meaning: By the, by means of the, via the, through the.
example: Introduce the endoscope per nasum.
4. meaning: In accordance with.
example: I parked my car at the curb per your request.
per
(/pɜː(ɹ)/, /pɝ/): adjective1. meaning: Belonging to per, their (singular). Gender-neutral third-person singular possessive adjective, coordinate with gendered his and her.
per
(/pɜː(ɹ)/, /pɝ/): adjective: pronoun1. meaning: They (singular). Gender-neutral neologistic third-person singular subject pronoun, coordinate with gendered pronouns he and she.
2. meaning: Them (singular) Neologistic gender-neutral third-person singular object pronoun, suggested for use in place of him and her.
at
(): verb1. meaning: To reply to or talk to someone, either online or face-to-face. (from the practice of targeting a message or reply to someone online by writing @name)
example: Cars 2 is the most influential film of all time. Don't @ me.
at
(): verb: noun1. meaning: The at sign (@).
at
(): verb: noun: preposition1. meaning: In, near, or in the general vicinity of a particular place.
example: Caesar was at Rome; at the corner of Fourth Street and Vine; at Jim’s house
2. meaning: (indicating time) Indicating occurrence in an instant of time or a period of time relatively short in context or from the speaker's perspective.
example: at six o’clock; at closing time; at night.
3. meaning: In the direction of (often in an unfocused or uncaring manner).
example: He threw the ball at me. He shouted at her.
4. meaning: Denotes a price.
example: 3 apples at 2¢ (each) The offer was at $30,000 before negotiations.
5. meaning: Occupied in (activity).
example: men at work
6. meaning: In a state of.
example: She is at sixes and sevens with him. They are at loggerheads over how best to tackle the fiscal cliff. The city was at the mercy of the occupying forces.
7. meaning: Indicates a position on a scale or in a series.
example: Sell at 90. Tiger finished the round at tenth, seven strokes behind the leaders. I'm offering it—just to select customers—at cost.
8. meaning: Because of.
example: to laugh at a joke mad at their comments
9. meaning: Indicates a means, method, or manner.
10. meaning: Holding a given speed or rate.
example: It is growing at the rate of 3% a year. Cruising along at fifty miles per hour.
11. meaning: (used for skills (including in activities) or areas of knowledge) On the subject of; regarding.
example: He slipped at marksmanship over his extended vacation.
12. meaning: (stressed pronunciation) Bothering, irritating, causing discomfort to
at
(): pronoun1. meaning: Reduced form of that.
example: I've never seen anything like ’at.
at
(): noun1. meaning: A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Lao kip.
problem_type: 11/30 (loop 0/0)
Problem Template: _problem_conjunction_fill_blanks
Fill in the blanks using conjunctions given below.
Use punctuation or change the form of words if needed.
Words: wherefore, since, unless, whilst
Denny got up and took the dirty plates over to the sink. Frankie joined her while Matt, wearing a martyred look he had long __________ perfected, left.
- Nightmare Abbey
... Beware of them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, __________ the writing be erased. Deny it!" cried the Spirit, stretching out its hand towards the city. "Slander those who tell it ye!...
- A Christmas Carol
...' 'Very well,' answered the sparrow, 'do so, and in the meantime I will perch upon that bush.' So the dog stretched himself out on the road, and fell fast asleep. __________ he slept, there came by a carter with a cart drawn by three horses, and loaded with two casks of wine....
- Grimms Fairy Tales
... But he couldn't replenish it, for Scrooge kept the coal-box in his own room; and so surely as the clerk came in with the shovel, the master predicted that it would be necessary for them to part. __________ the clerk put on his white comforter, and tried to warm himself at the candle; in which effort, not being a man of strong imagination, he failed....
Words: wherefore, since, unless, whilst
Answer:
Denny got up and took the dirty plates over to the sink. Frankie joined her while Matt, wearing a martyred look he had long since perfected, left.
- Nightmare Abbey
... Beware of them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased. Deny it!" cried the Spirit, stretching out its hand towards the city. "Slander those who tell it ye!...
- A Christmas Carol
...' 'Very well,' answered the sparrow, 'do so, and in the meantime I will perch upon that bush.' So the dog stretched himself out on the road, and fell fast asleep. Whilst he slept, there came by a carter with a cart drawn by three horses, and loaded with two casks of wine....
- Grimms Fairy Tales
... But he couldn't replenish it, for Scrooge kept the coal-box in his own room; and so surely as the clerk came in with the shovel, the master predicted that it would be necessary for them to part. Wherefore the clerk put on his white comforter, and tried to warm himself at the candle; in which effort, not being a man of strong imagination, he failed....
- Nightmare Abbey
... Beware of them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased. Deny it!" cried the Spirit, stretching out its hand towards the city. "Slander those who tell it ye!...
- A Christmas Carol
...' 'Very well,' answered the sparrow, 'do so, and in the meantime I will perch upon that bush.' So the dog stretched himself out on the road, and fell fast asleep. Whilst he slept, there came by a carter with a cart drawn by three horses, and loaded with two casks of wine....
- Grimms Fairy Tales
... But he couldn't replenish it, for Scrooge kept the coal-box in his own room; and so surely as the clerk came in with the shovel, the master predicted that it would be necessary for them to part. Wherefore the clerk put on his white comforter, and tried to warm himself at the candle; in which effort, not being a man of strong imagination, he failed....
Solution:
Denny got up and took the dirty plates over to the sink. Frankie joined her while Matt, wearing a martyred look he had long since perfected, left.
- Nightmare Abbey
... Beware of them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased. Deny it!" cried the Spirit, stretching out its hand towards the city. "Slander those who tell it ye!...
- A Christmas Carol
...' 'Very well,' answered the sparrow, 'do so, and in the meantime I will perch upon that bush.' So the dog stretched himself out on the road, and fell fast asleep. Whilst he slept, there came by a carter with a cart drawn by three horses, and loaded with two casks of wine....
- Grimms Fairy Tales
... But he couldn't replenish it, for Scrooge kept the coal-box in his own room; and so surely as the clerk came in with the shovel, the master predicted that it would be necessary for them to part. Wherefore the clerk put on his white comforter, and tried to warm himself at the candle; in which effort, not being a man of strong imagination, he failed....
More meanings and details:
since
(/sɪns/): adverb1. meaning: From a specified time in the past.
example: A short/long time since
since
(/sɪns/): adverb: preposition1. meaning: From: referring to a period of time ending in the present and defining it by the point in time at which it started, or the period in which its starting point occurred.
since
(/sɪns/): adverb: preposition: conjunction1. meaning: From the time that.
example: I have loved you since I first met you.
2. meaning: Because.
example: Since you didn't call, we left without you.
3. meaning: When or that.
unless
(/ənˈlɛs/): conjunction1. meaning: Except on a specified condition; if not.
example: I’m leaving unless I get a pay rise (AmE: raise).
2. meaning: If not; used with counterfactual conditionals.
3. meaning: Except if; used with hypothetical conditionals.
wherefore
(/ˈweə(ɹ)ˌfɔː(ɹ)/): noun1. meaning: An intent or purpose; a why.
wherefore
(/ˈweə(ɹ)ˌfɔː(ɹ)/): noun: adverb1. meaning: (interrogative) Why, for what reason, because of what.
2. meaning: (indicative) Therefore.
wherefore
(/ˈweə(ɹ)ˌfɔː(ɹ)/): noun: adverb: conjunction1. meaning: Because of which.
whilst
(/hwaɪlst/, /hwaɪlst/): conjunction1. meaning: (rare or literary in North America) While, at the same time.
example: Drivers must switch off engines whilst on stand.
synonyms: while
problem_type: 12/30 (loop 0/0)
Problem Template: _problem_interjection_fill_blanks
Fill in the blanks using interjections given below.
Use punctuation or change the form of words if needed.
Words: please, here, encore, ca
... The Antipathies, I think-' (she was rather glad there WAS no one listening, this time, as it didn't sound at all the right word) '-but I shall have to ask them what the name of the country is, you know. __________, Ma'am, is this New Zealand or Australia?' (and she tried to curtsey as she spoke-fancy
- Alices Adventures In Wonderland
Alice began to feel very uneasy: to be sure, she had not as yet had any dispute with the Queen, but she knew that it might happen any minute, 'and then,' thought she, 'what would become of me? They're dreadfully fond of beheading people __________; the great wonder is, that there's any one left alive!'
... As he turned over the pages his eye fell on the poem about the hand of Lacenaire, the cold yellow hand 'du supplice __________ mal lav?e,' with its downy red hairs and its 'doigts de faune.' He glanced at his own white taper fingers, and passed on, till he came to those lovely verses upon Venice:
It was a festival of many firsts at __________ Block. It was the first time Jagadhatri Puja was held under the block's banner, the first time residents performed dhunuchi dance at the puja and also t...
Words: please, here, encore, ca
Answer:
... The Antipathies, I think-' (she was rather glad there WAS no one listening, this time, as it didn't sound at all the right word) '-but I shall have to ask them what the name of the country is, you know. Please, Ma'am, is this New Zealand or Australia?' (and she tried to curtsey as she spoke-fancy
- Alices Adventures In Wonderland
Alice began to feel very uneasy: to be sure, she had not as yet had any dispute with the Queen, but she knew that it might happen any minute, 'and then,' thought she, 'what would become of me? They're dreadfully fond of beheading people here; the great wonder is, that there's any one left alive!'
... As he turned over the pages his eye fell on the poem about the hand of Lacenaire, the cold yellow hand 'du supplice encore mal lav?e,' with its downy red hairs and its 'doigts de faune.' He glanced at his own white taper fingers, and passed on, till he came to those lovely verses upon Venice:
It was a festival of many firsts at CA Block. It was the first time Jagadhatri Puja was held under the block's banner, the first time residents performed dhunuchi dance at the puja and also t...
- Alices Adventures In Wonderland
Alice began to feel very uneasy: to be sure, she had not as yet had any dispute with the Queen, but she knew that it might happen any minute, 'and then,' thought she, 'what would become of me? They're dreadfully fond of beheading people here; the great wonder is, that there's any one left alive!'
... As he turned over the pages his eye fell on the poem about the hand of Lacenaire, the cold yellow hand 'du supplice encore mal lav?e,' with its downy red hairs and its 'doigts de faune.' He glanced at his own white taper fingers, and passed on, till he came to those lovely verses upon Venice:
It was a festival of many firsts at CA Block. It was the first time Jagadhatri Puja was held under the block's banner, the first time residents performed dhunuchi dance at the puja and also t...
Solution:
... The Antipathies, I think-' (she was rather glad there WAS no one listening, this time, as it didn't sound at all the right word) '-but I shall have to ask them what the name of the country is, you know. Please, Ma'am, is this New Zealand or Australia?' (and she tried to curtsey as she spoke-fancy
- Alices Adventures In Wonderland
Alice began to feel very uneasy: to be sure, she had not as yet had any dispute with the Queen, but she knew that it might happen any minute, 'and then,' thought she, 'what would become of me? They're dreadfully fond of beheading people here; the great wonder is, that there's any one left alive!'
... As he turned over the pages his eye fell on the poem about the hand of Lacenaire, the cold yellow hand 'du supplice encore mal lav?e,' with its downy red hairs and its 'doigts de faune.' He glanced at his own white taper fingers, and passed on, till he came to those lovely verses upon Venice:
It was a festival of many firsts at CA Block. It was the first time Jagadhatri Puja was held under the block's banner, the first time residents performed dhunuchi dance at the puja and also t...
Meanings:
please: delight, give pleasure
More meanings and details:
pleases
(): verb1. meaning: To make happy or satisfy; to give pleasure to.
example: Her presentation pleased the executives.
2. meaning: To desire; to will; to be pleased by.
example: Just do as you please.
encores
: noun1. meaning: A brief extra performance, done after the main performance is complete.
example: Can I get an encore? We want more!
2. meaning: A call or demand (as by continued applause) for a repeat performance.
example: The encores were numerous.
encores
: noun: verb1. meaning: To call for an extra performance or repetition of, or by.
example: to encore a performer; to encore a song
2. meaning: To call for an encore.
3. meaning: To perform an encore.
pleased
(/pliːzd/): verb1. meaning: To make happy or satisfy; to give pleasure to.
example: Her presentation pleased the executives.
2. meaning: To desire; to will; to be pleased by.
example: Just do as you please.
pleased
(/pliːzd/): verb: adjective1. meaning: Happy, content
ca
: adverb1. meaning: Abbreviation of circa.
pleasing
(/ˈpliːzɪŋ/, /ˈplizɪŋ/): verb1. meaning: To make happy or satisfy; to give pleasure to.
example: Her presentation pleased the executives.
2. meaning: To desire; to will; to be pleased by.
example: Just do as you please.
pleasing
(/ˈpliːzɪŋ/, /ˈplizɪŋ/): verb: adjective1. meaning: Agreeable; giving pleasure, cheer, enjoyment or gratification.
pleasing
(/ˈpliːzɪŋ/, /ˈplizɪŋ/): noun1. meaning: Pleasure or satisfaction, as in the phrase "to my pleasing."
encore
(/ˈɒŋkɔː/, /ˈɑnkɔɹ/): noun1. meaning: A brief extra performance, done after the main performance is complete.
example: Can I get an encore? We want more!
2. meaning: A call or demand (as by continued applause) for a repeat performance.
example: The encores were numerous.
encore
(/ˈɒŋkɔː/, /ˈɑnkɔɹ/): noun: verb1. meaning: To call for an extra performance or repetition of, or by.
example: to encore a performer; to encore a song
2. meaning: To call for an encore.
3. meaning: To perform an encore.
encore
(/ˈɒŋkɔː/, /ˈɑnkɔɹ/): noun: verb: interjection1. meaning: (said by audience members after a performance) Please perform again!
here
(/hiːɹ/, /hɪə(ɹ)/, /hɪɹ/, /hjɜː/): noun1. meaning: (abstract) This place; this location.
example: An Alzheimer patient's here may in his mind be anywhere he called home in the time he presently re-lives.
2. meaning: (abstract) This time, the present situation.
here
(/hiːɹ/, /hɪə(ɹ)/, /hɪɹ/, /hjɜː/): noun: adjective1. meaning: Filler after a noun or demonstrative pronoun, solely for emphasis.
example: John here is a rascal.
2. meaning: Filler after a demonstrative pronoun but before the noun it modifies, solely for emphasis.
example: This here orange is too sour.
here
(/hiːɹ/, /hɪə(ɹ)/, /hɪɹ/, /hjɜː/): noun: adjective: adverb1. meaning: (location) In, on, or at this place.
example: Flu season is here.
synonyms: right here
2. meaning: (location) To this place; used in place of the more dated hither.
example: Please come here.
3. meaning: (abstract) In this context.
example: Derivatives can refer to anything that is derived from something else, but here they refer specifically to functions that give the slope of the tangent line to a curve.
4. meaning: At this point in the argument, narration, or other, usually written, work.
example: Here endeth the lesson.
here
(/hiːɹ/, /hɪə(ɹ)/, /hɪɹ/, /hjɜː/): noun: adjective: adverb: interjection1. meaning: Used semi-assertively to offer something to the listener.
example: Here, now I'm giving it to you.
2. meaning: Used for emphasis at the beginning of a sentence when expressing an opinion or want.
example: Here, I'm tired and I want a drink.
please
(/pliːz/, /pliz/): verb1. meaning: To make happy or satisfy; to give pleasure to.
example: Her presentation pleased the executives.
2. meaning: To desire; to will; to be pleased by.
example: Just do as you please.
please
(/pliːz/, /pliz/): adverb1. meaning: Used to make a polite request.
example: Could you tell me the time, please?
2. meaning: Used as an affirmative to an offer.
example: —May I help you? —Please.
3. meaning: An expression of annoyance or impatience.
example: Oh, please, do we have to hear that again?
please
(/pliːz/, /pliz/): adverb1. meaning: (Cincinnati) Said as a request to repeat information.
problem_type: 13/30 (loop 0/0)
Problem Template: _problem_determiner_fill_blanks
Fill in the blanks using determiners given below.
Use punctuation or change the form of words if needed.
Words: those, dat, mine, yonder
... There it was my lot to form a connection with one who in time became my wife, and the mother of Cora. She was the daughter of a gentleman of __________ isles, by a lady whose misfortune it was, if you will,' said the old man, proudly, 'to be descended, remotely, from that unfortunate class who are so basely enslaved to administer to the wants of a luxurious people....
- The Last Of The Mohicans
'He hunts the moose to-day, with his young men; and tomorrow, as I hear, they pass further into the forests, and nigher to the borders of Canada. The elder maiden is conveyed to a neighboring people, whose lodges are situate beyond __________ black pinnacle of rock; while the younger is detained among the women of the Hurons, whose dwellings are but two short miles hence, on a table-land, where the fire had done the office of the axe, and prepared the place for their reception....
'This is neither the place nor the occasion to detain you with selfish wishes,' he added; 'but what heart loaded like __________ would not wish to cast its burden? They say misery is the closest of all ties; our common suffering in your behalf left but little to be explained between your father and myself....
... The boy early developed a mechanical genius which delighted his father and distracted his mother, for he tried to imitate every machine he saw, and kept the nursery in a chaotic condition, with his "sewin-sheen"-a mysterious structure of string, chairs, clothespins, and spools, for wheels to go "wound and wound"; also a basket hung over the back of a chair, in which he vainly tried to hoist his too confiding sister, who, with feminine devotion, allowed her little head to be bumped till rescued, when the young inventor indignantly remarked, "Why, Marmar, __________'s my lellywaiter, and me's trying to pull her up."
Words: those, dat, mine, yonder
Answer:
... There it was my lot to form a connection with one who in time became my wife, and the mother of Cora. She was the daughter of a gentleman of those isles, by a lady whose misfortune it was, if you will,' said the old man, proudly, 'to be descended, remotely, from that unfortunate class who are so basely enslaved to administer to the wants of a luxurious people....
- The Last Of The Mohicans
'He hunts the moose to-day, with his young men; and tomorrow, as I hear, they pass further into the forests, and nigher to the borders of Canada. The elder maiden is conveyed to a neighboring people, whose lodges are situate beyond yonder black pinnacle of rock; while the younger is detained among the women of the Hurons, whose dwellings are but two short miles hence, on a table-land, where the fire had done the office of the axe, and prepared the place for their reception....
'This is neither the place nor the occasion to detain you with selfish wishes,' he added; 'but what heart loaded like mine would not wish to cast its burden? They say misery is the closest of all ties; our common suffering in your behalf left but little to be explained between your father and myself....
... The boy early developed a mechanical genius which delighted his father and distracted his mother, for he tried to imitate every machine he saw, and kept the nursery in a chaotic condition, with his "sewin-sheen"-a mysterious structure of string, chairs, clothespins, and spools, for wheels to go "wound and wound"; also a basket hung over the back of a chair, in which he vainly tried to hoist his too confiding sister, who, with feminine devotion, allowed her little head to be bumped till rescued, when the young inventor indignantly remarked, "Why, Marmar, dat's my lellywaiter, and me's trying to pull her up."
- The Last Of The Mohicans
'He hunts the moose to-day, with his young men; and tomorrow, as I hear, they pass further into the forests, and nigher to the borders of Canada. The elder maiden is conveyed to a neighboring people, whose lodges are situate beyond yonder black pinnacle of rock; while the younger is detained among the women of the Hurons, whose dwellings are but two short miles hence, on a table-land, where the fire had done the office of the axe, and prepared the place for their reception....
'This is neither the place nor the occasion to detain you with selfish wishes,' he added; 'but what heart loaded like mine would not wish to cast its burden? They say misery is the closest of all ties; our common suffering in your behalf left but little to be explained between your father and myself....
... The boy early developed a mechanical genius which delighted his father and distracted his mother, for he tried to imitate every machine he saw, and kept the nursery in a chaotic condition, with his "sewin-sheen"-a mysterious structure of string, chairs, clothespins, and spools, for wheels to go "wound and wound"; also a basket hung over the back of a chair, in which he vainly tried to hoist his too confiding sister, who, with feminine devotion, allowed her little head to be bumped till rescued, when the young inventor indignantly remarked, "Why, Marmar, dat's my lellywaiter, and me's trying to pull her up."
Solution:
... There it was my lot to form a connection with one who in time became my wife, and the mother of Cora. She was the daughter of a gentleman of those isles, by a lady whose misfortune it was, if you will,' said the old man, proudly, 'to be descended, remotely, from that unfortunate class who are so basely enslaved to administer to the wants of a luxurious people....
- The Last Of The Mohicans
'He hunts the moose to-day, with his young men; and tomorrow, as I hear, they pass further into the forests, and nigher to the borders of Canada. The elder maiden is conveyed to a neighboring people, whose lodges are situate beyond yonder black pinnacle of rock; while the younger is detained among the women of the Hurons, whose dwellings are but two short miles hence, on a table-land, where the fire had done the office of the axe, and prepared the place for their reception....
'This is neither the place nor the occasion to detain you with selfish wishes,' he added; 'but what heart loaded like mine would not wish to cast its burden? They say misery is the closest of all ties; our common suffering in your behalf left but little to be explained between your father and myself....
... The boy early developed a mechanical genius which delighted his father and distracted his mother, for he tried to imitate every machine he saw, and kept the nursery in a chaotic condition, with his "sewin-sheen"-a mysterious structure of string, chairs, clothespins, and spools, for wheels to go "wound and wound"; also a basket hung over the back of a chair, in which he vainly tried to hoist his too confiding sister, who, with feminine devotion, allowed her little head to be bumped till rescued, when the young inventor indignantly remarked, "Why, Marmar, dat's my lellywaiter, and me's trying to pull her up."
Meanings:
mine: excavation of ores and minerals
More meanings and details:
mines
(/maɪnz/): noun1. meaning: Demeanor; facial expression or attitude, especially one which is intended by its bearer.
2. meaning: A specific facial expression.
mines
(/maɪnz/): noun: noun1. meaning: An excavation from which ore or solid minerals are taken, especially one consisting of underground tunnels.
2. meaning: Any source of wealth or resources.
3. meaning: A passage dug toward or underneath enemy lines, which is then packed with explosives.
4. meaning: A device intended to explode when stepped upon or touched, or when approached by a ship, vehicle, or person.
5. meaning: A type of firework that explodes on the ground, shooting sparks upward.
6. meaning: The cavity made by a caterpillar while feeding inside a leaf.
7. meaning: A machine or network of machines used to extract units of a cryptocurrency.
mines
(/maɪnz/): noun: noun: verb1. meaning: To remove (ore) from the ground.
2. meaning: To dig into, for ore or metal.
3. meaning: To sow mines (the explosive devices) in (an area).
4. meaning: To damage (a vehicle or ship) with a mine (an explosive device).
5. meaning: To dig a tunnel or hole; to burrow in the earth.
6. meaning: To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine.
7. meaning: (by extension) To ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means.
8. meaning: To pick one's nose.
9. meaning: To earn new units of cryptocurrency by doing certain calculations.
mines
(/maɪnz/): noun: noun: verb: pronoun1. meaning: Variation of mine, formed through analogy based on the final -s of the other possessive pronouns (ours, yours, hers, theirs, his)
dat
(/dæt/): adverb1. meaning: (degree) To a given extent or degree.
example: "The ribbon was that thin." "I disagree, I say it was not that thin, it was thicker... or maybe thinner..."
2. meaning: (degree) To a great extent or degree; very, particularly (in negative constructions).
example: I did the run last year, and it wasn't that difficult.
synonyms: so
3. meaning: To such an extent; so. (in positive constructions).
example: Ooh, I was that happy I nearly kissed her.
dat
(/dæt/): adverb: pronoun1. meaning: (demonstrative) The thing, person, idea, quality, event, action or time indicated or understood from context, especially if more remote geographically, temporally or mentally than one designated as "this", or if expressing distinction.
example: He went home, and after that I never saw him again.
2. meaning: The known (thing); used to refer to something just said.
example: They're getting divorced. What do you think about that?
3. meaning: (demonstrative) The aforementioned quality or proposition; used to emphatically affirm or deny a previous statement or question.
example: The water is so cold! — That it is.
4. meaning: (relative) (plural that) Which, who; representing a subject, direct object, indirect object, or object of a preposition.
example: The CPR course that she took really came in handy.
5. meaning: Used in place of relative adverbs such as where or when; often omitted.
example: the last time that [= when] I went to Europe
dat
(/dæt/): adverb: pronoun: conjunction1. meaning: Introducing a clause which is the subject or object of a verb (such as one involving reported speech), or which is a complement to a previous statement.
example: He told me that the book is a good read.
2. meaning: Introducing a subordinate clause expressing a reason or cause: because, in that.
example: Be glad that you have enough to eat.
3. meaning: Introducing a subordinate clause that expresses an aim, purpose or goal ("final"), and usually contains the auxiliaries may, might or should: so, so that.
4. meaning: Introducing — especially, but not exclusively, with an antecedent like so or such — a subordinate clause expressing a result, consequence or effect.
example: The noise was so loud that she woke up.
5. meaning: Introducing a premise or supposition for consideration: seeing as; inasmuch as; given that; as would appear from the fact that.
6. meaning: Introducing a subordinate clause modifying an adverb.
example: How often did she visit him? — Twice that I saw.
7. meaning: Introducing an exclamation expressing a desire or wish.
example: Oh that spring would come!
8. meaning: Introducing an exclamation expressing a strong emotion such as sadness or surprise.
mine
(/maɪn/): pronoun1. meaning: My; belonging to me; that which belongs to me.
mine
(/maɪn/): noun1. meaning: An excavation from which ore or solid minerals are taken, especially one consisting of underground tunnels.
2. meaning: Any source of wealth or resources.
3. meaning: A passage dug toward or underneath enemy lines, which is then packed with explosives.
4. meaning: A device intended to explode when stepped upon or touched, or when approached by a ship, vehicle, or person.
5. meaning: A type of firework that explodes on the ground, shooting sparks upward.
6. meaning: The cavity made by a caterpillar while feeding inside a leaf.
7. meaning: A machine or network of machines used to extract units of a cryptocurrency.
mine
(/maɪn/): noun: verb1. meaning: To remove (ore) from the ground.
2. meaning: To dig into, for ore or metal.
3. meaning: To sow mines (the explosive devices) in (an area).
4. meaning: To damage (a vehicle or ship) with a mine (an explosive device).
5. meaning: To dig a tunnel or hole; to burrow in the earth.
6. meaning: To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine.
7. meaning: (by extension) To ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means.
8. meaning: To pick one's nose.
9. meaning: To earn new units of cryptocurrency by doing certain calculations.
mine
(/maɪn/): noun1. meaning: Demeanor; facial expression or attitude, especially one which is intended by its bearer.
2. meaning: A specific facial expression.
mined
(/maɪnd/): verb1. meaning: To remove (ore) from the ground.
2. meaning: To dig into, for ore or metal.
3. meaning: To sow mines (the explosive devices) in (an area).
4. meaning: To damage (a vehicle or ship) with a mine (an explosive device).
5. meaning: To dig a tunnel or hole; to burrow in the earth.
6. meaning: To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine.
7. meaning: (by extension) To ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means.
8. meaning: To pick one's nose.
9. meaning: To earn new units of cryptocurrency by doing certain calculations.
those
(/ðəʊz/, /ðoʊz/): pronoun1. meaning: (demonstrative) The thing, person, idea, quality, event, action or time indicated or understood from context, especially if more remote geographically, temporally or mentally than one designated as "this", or if expressing distinction.
example: He went home, and after that I never saw him again.
2. meaning: The known (thing); used to refer to something just said.
example: They're getting divorced. What do you think about that?
3. meaning: (demonstrative) The aforementioned quality or proposition; used to emphatically affirm or deny a previous statement or question.
example: The water is so cold! — That it is.
4. meaning: (relative) (plural that) Which, who; representing a subject, direct object, indirect object, or object of a preposition.
example: The CPR course that she took really came in handy.
5. meaning: Used in place of relative adverbs such as where or when; often omitted.
example: the last time that [= when] I went to Europe
yonder
(, /ˈjɒndə(ɹ)/, /ˈjɑndəɹ/): adverb1. meaning: To that place.
2. meaning: To that point, end, or result.
example: The argument tended thither.
yonder
(, /ˈjɒndə(ɹ)/, /ˈjɑndəɹ/): adverb: noun1. meaning: The vast distance, particularly the sky or trackless forest.
yonder
(, /ˈjɒndə(ɹ)/, /ˈjɑndəɹ/): adverb: noun: adjective1. meaning: (with "the") The farther, the more distant of two choices.
yonder
(, /ˈjɒndə(ɹ)/, /ˈjɑndəɹ/): adverb: noun: adjective: adverb1. meaning: At or in a distant but indicated place.
example: Whose doublewide is that over yonder?
mining
(/ˈmaɪnɪŋ/): verb1. meaning: To remove (ore) from the ground.
2. meaning: To dig into, for ore or metal.
3. meaning: To sow mines (the explosive devices) in (an area).
4. meaning: To damage (a vehicle or ship) with a mine (an explosive device).
5. meaning: To dig a tunnel or hole; to burrow in the earth.
6. meaning: To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine.
7. meaning: (by extension) To ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means.
8. meaning: To pick one's nose.
9. meaning: To earn new units of cryptocurrency by doing certain calculations.
mining
(/ˈmaɪnɪŋ/): verb: noun1. meaning: The activity of removing solid valuables from the earth.
example: gold mining
2. meaning: Any activity that extracts or undermines.
example: His extensive mining for apparently statistically significant results made any of his results questionable.
3. meaning: The activity of placing explosives underground, rigged to explode
4. meaning: Creation of new units of cryptocurrency by validating transactions and demonstrating proof-of-work
dat
(/dæt/): adverb1. meaning: (degree) To a given extent or degree.
example: "The ribbon was that thin." "I disagree, I say it was not that thin, it was thicker... or maybe thinner..."
2. meaning: (degree) To a great extent or degree; very, particularly (in negative constructions).
example: I did the run last year, and it wasn't that difficult.
synonyms: so
3. meaning: To such an extent; so. (in positive constructions).
example: Ooh, I was that happy I nearly kissed her.
dat
(/dæt/): adverb: pronoun1. meaning: (demonstrative) The thing, person, idea, quality, event, action or time indicated or understood from context, especially if more remote geographically, temporally or mentally than one designated as "this", or if expressing distinction.
example: He went home, and after that I never saw him again.
2. meaning: The known (thing); used to refer to something just said.
example: They're getting divorced. What do you think about that?
3. meaning: (demonstrative) The aforementioned quality or proposition; used to emphatically affirm or deny a previous statement or question.
example: The water is so cold! — That it is.
4. meaning: (relative) (plural that) Which, who; representing a subject, direct object, indirect object, or object of a preposition.
example: The CPR course that she took really came in handy.
5. meaning: Used in place of relative adverbs such as where or when; often omitted.
example: the last time that [= when] I went to Europe
dat
(/dæt/): adverb: pronoun: conjunction1. meaning: Introducing a clause which is the subject or object of a verb (such as one involving reported speech), or which is a complement to a previous statement.
example: He told me that the book is a good read.
2. meaning: Introducing a subordinate clause expressing a reason or cause: because, in that.
example: Be glad that you have enough to eat.
3. meaning: Introducing a subordinate clause that expresses an aim, purpose or goal ("final"), and usually contains the auxiliaries may, might or should: so, so that.
4. meaning: Introducing — especially, but not exclusively, with an antecedent like so or such — a subordinate clause expressing a result, consequence or effect.
example: The noise was so loud that she woke up.
5. meaning: Introducing a premise or supposition for consideration: seeing as; inasmuch as; given that; as would appear from the fact that.
6. meaning: Introducing a subordinate clause modifying an adverb.
example: How often did she visit him? — Twice that I saw.
7. meaning: Introducing an exclamation expressing a desire or wish.
example: Oh that spring would come!
8. meaning: Introducing an exclamation expressing a strong emotion such as sadness or surprise.
problem_type: 14/30 (loop 0/0)
Problem Template: _problem_predeterminer_fill_blanks
Fill in the blanks using predeterminers given below.
Use punctuation or change the form of words if needed.
Words: half, rather, quite, what
... His reason told him that there must beexceptions, but his heart did not believe it. They were all impregnable, as the Party intended that they should be. And __________ he wanted, more even than to be loved, was to break down that wall of virtue, even if it were only once in his whole life....
... His solid form towered over the pair of them, and the expressionon his face was still indecipherable. He was waiting, somewhat sternly, for Winston to speak, but about __________? Even now it was __________ conceivable that he was simply a busy man wondering irritablywhy he had been interrupted. Nobody spoke....
... He reached out for the discarded overalls and pulled them partly over her. Almost immediately theyfell asleep and slept for about __________ an hour.
... His body was held down at every essential point. Even the back of his head was gripped in some manner. O'Brien was looking down at him gravely and __________ sadly. His face, seen from below, looked coarse and worn, with pouches under the eyes and tired lines from nose to chin....
Words: half, rather, quite, what
Answer:
... His reason told him that there must beexceptions, but his heart did not believe it. They were all impregnable, as the Party intended that they should be. And what he wanted, more even than to be loved, was to break down that wall of virtue, even if it were only once in his whole life....
... His solid form towered over the pair of them, and the expressionon his face was still indecipherable. He was waiting, somewhat sternly, for Winston to speak, but about what? Even now it was quite conceivable that he was simply a busy man wondering irritablywhy he had been interrupted. Nobody spoke....
... He reached out for the discarded overalls and pulled them partly over her. Almost immediately theyfell asleep and slept for about half an hour.
... His body was held down at every essential point. Even the back of his head was gripped in some manner. O'Brien was looking down at him gravely and rather sadly. His face, seen from below, looked coarse and worn, with pouches under the eyes and tired lines from nose to chin....
... His solid form towered over the pair of them, and the expressionon his face was still indecipherable. He was waiting, somewhat sternly, for Winston to speak, but about what? Even now it was quite conceivable that he was simply a busy man wondering irritablywhy he had been interrupted. Nobody spoke....
... He reached out for the discarded overalls and pulled them partly over her. Almost immediately theyfell asleep and slept for about half an hour.
... His body was held down at every essential point. Even the back of his head was gripped in some manner. O'Brien was looking down at him gravely and rather sadly. His face, seen from below, looked coarse and worn, with pouches under the eyes and tired lines from nose to chin....
Solution:
... His reason told him that there must beexceptions, but his heart did not believe it. They were all impregnable, as the Party intended that they should be. And what he wanted, more even than to be loved, was to break down that wall of virtue, even if it were only once in his whole life....
... His solid form towered over the pair of them, and the expressionon his face was still indecipherable. He was waiting, somewhat sternly, for Winston to speak, but about what? Even now it was quite conceivable that he was simply a busy man wondering irritablywhy he had been interrupted. Nobody spoke....
... He reached out for the discarded overalls and pulled them partly over her. Almost immediately theyfell asleep and slept for about half an hour.
... His body was held down at every essential point. Even the back of his head was gripped in some manner. O'Brien was looking down at him gravely and rather sadly. His face, seen from below, looked coarse and worn, with pouches under the eyes and tired lines from nose to chin....
Meanings:
half: one-half, one of two equal parts
More meanings and details:
half
(/hɑːf/): noun1. meaning: One of two usually roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided, or considered as divided.
example: I ate the slightly smaller half of the apple.
2. meaning: Half of a standard measure; frequently used for half a pint of beer or cider.
3. meaning: (preceded by “a” or a number) The fraction obtained by dividing 1 by 2.
example: Three-quarters minus a quarter is a half.
4. meaning: Part; side; behalf.
5. meaning: Any of the three terms at Eton College, for Michaelmas, Lent, and summer.
6. meaning: A half sibling.
7. meaning: A child ticket.
half
(/hɑːf/): noun: verb1. meaning: To halve.
half
(/hɑːf/): noun: verb: adjective1. meaning: Consisting of a half (1/2, 50%).
example: a half bushel; a half hour; a half dollar; a half view
2. meaning: Consisting of some indefinite portion resembling a half; approximately a half, whether more or less; partial; imperfect.
example: a half dream; half knowledge
3. meaning: (of a sibling) Having one parent (rather than two) in common.
4. meaning: (rare, of a relative other than a sibling) Related through one common grandparent or ancestor rather than two.
half
(/hɑːf/): noun: verb: adjective: adverb1. meaning: In two equal parts or to an equal degree.
2. meaning: In some part approximating a half.
3. meaning: Partially; imperfectly.
example: He does sometimes half wish to change his life, but it is too difficult.
half
(/hɑːf/): noun: verb: adjective: adverb: preposition1. meaning: A half-hour after, thirty minutes after (used with the number of the hour).
example: half one
quite
(/kwaɪt/, /kwaɪt/): adverb1. meaning: (heading) To the greatest extent or degree; completely, entirely.
synonyms: absolutely, fully, thoroughly, totally, utterly
2. meaning: (heading) In a fully justified sense; truly, perfectly, actually.
3. meaning: To a moderate extent or degree; somewhat, rather.
antonyms: slightly
quite
(/kwaɪt/, /kwaɪt/): adverb: interjection1. meaning: Indicates agreement; "exactly so".
quite
(/ˈkiːteɪ/): noun1. meaning: A series of passes made with the cape to distract the bull.
halves
: noun1. meaning: One of two usually roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided, or considered as divided.
example: I ate the slightly smaller half of the apple.
2. meaning: Half of a standard measure; frequently used for half a pint of beer or cider.
3. meaning: (preceded by “a” or a number) The fraction obtained by dividing 1 by 2.
example: Three-quarters minus a quarter is a half.
4. meaning: Part; side; behalf.
5. meaning: Any of the three terms at Eton College, for Michaelmas, Lent, and summer.
6. meaning: A half sibling.
7. meaning: A child ticket.
halves
: noun: verb1. meaning: To reduce to half the original amount.
2. meaning: To divide into two halves.
3. meaning: To make up half of.
4. meaning: To join two pieces of timber etc. by cutting away each for half its thickness at the joining place, and fitting together.
5. meaning: In match play, to achieve a tie or draw on.
example: to halve a hole or a match
rather
(/ˈɹɑːðə/, /ˌɹɑːˈðɜː(ɹ)/, /ˈɹæðɚ/): verb1. meaning: To prefer; to prefer to.
rather
(/ˈɹɑːðə/, /ˌɹɑːˈðɜː(ɹ)/, /ˈɹæðɚ/): verb: adjective1. meaning: Prior; earlier; former.
rather
(/ˈɹɑːðə/, /ˌɹɑːˈðɜː(ɹ)/, /ˈɹæðɚ/): verb: adjective: adverb1. meaning: More quickly; sooner, earlier.
2. meaning: Used to specify a choice or preference; preferably, in preference to. (Now usually followed by than)
example: I'd like this one rather than the other one.
3. meaning: Used to introduce a contradiction; on the contrary.
example: It wasn't supposed to be popular; rather, it was supposed to get the job done.
4. meaning: Introducing a qualification or clarification; more precisely. (Now usually preceded by or.)
example: I didn't want to leave. Or rather I did, just not alone.
5. meaning: (degree) Somewhat, fairly.
example: This melon is rather tasteless, especially compared to the one we had last time.
rather
(/ˈɹɑːðə/, /ˌɹɑːˈðɜː(ɹ)/, /ˈɹæðɚ/): verb: adjective: adverb: interjection1. meaning: An enthusiastic affirmation.
example: "Would you like some?" -- "Rather!"
what
(/wɔt/, /wʌt/, [wʌɾ], /wɒt/, /wɒt/, /wɒt/, , [wʌɾ]): adverb1. meaning: (Singlish) Used to contradict an underlying assumption held by the interlocutor.
what
(/wɔt/, /wʌt/, [wʌɾ], /wɒt/, /wɒt/, /wɒt/, , [wʌɾ]): adverb: noun1. meaning: Something; thing; stuff.
2. meaning: The identity of a thing, as an answer to a question of what.
3. meaning: Something that is addressed by what, as opposed to a person, addressed by who.
what
(/wɔt/, /wʌt/, [wʌɾ], /wɒt/, /wɒt/, /wɒt/, , [wʌɾ]): adverb: noun: adverb1. meaning: (usually followed by "with," but also sometimes "would" or "might," especially in finance) In some manner or degree; in part; partly. See also what with
example: The market will calculate these higher risks in their funding costs what might result in higher lending rates.
2. meaning: Such.
example: What a beautiful day!
3. meaning: Why.
4. meaning: Used to introduce each of two coordinate phrases or concepts; both…and.
what
(/wɔt/, /wʌt/, [wʌɾ], /wɒt/, /wɒt/, /wɒt/, , [wʌɾ]): adverb: noun: adverb: pronoun1. meaning: (interrogative) Which thing, event, circumstance, etc.: used interrogatively in asking for the specification of an identity, quantity, quality, etc.
2. meaning: That which; those that; the thing that.
example: He knows what he wants.
3. meaning: (relative) That; which; who.
4. meaning: Whatever.
example: I will do what I can to help you.
what
(/wɔt/, /wʌt/, [wʌɾ], /wɒt/, /wɒt/, /wɒt/, , [wʌɾ]): adverb: noun: adverb: pronoun: interjection1. meaning: An expression of surprise or disbelief.
2. meaning: What do you want? An abrupt, usually unfriendly enquiry as to what a person desires.
example: What? I'm busy.
3. meaning: Clipping of what do you say?
4. meaning: What did you say? I beg your pardon?
5. meaning: (typically with a) An intensifier to an adjective phrase; used to begin a sentence.
example: What a nice car.
problem_type: 15/30 (loop 0/0)
Please wait ... Problem Template: _problem_fill_confusing_words
Fill in the blanks using words given below.
Use punctuation or change the form of words if needed.
Words: precedent, president, jury-rigged, jerry-built
OM was a glittering hero once more - the pet of the old, the envy of the young. His name even went into immortal print, for the village paper magnified him. There were some that believed he would be __________, yet, if he escaped hanging.
- The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer
... And for years afterwards, perhaps, ships shun the place; leaping over it as silly sheep leap over a vacuum, because their leader originally leaped there when a stick was held. There's your law of __________; there's your utility of traditions; there's the story of your obstinate survival of old beliefs never bottomed on the earth, and now not even hovering in the air!...
- Moby Dick 11
WONDER CITY SEEN IN FILM AT FAIR; Picture Reveals Development of Community From Its Start as Village RUINED VALLEYS DEPICTED Rise From __________ Houses to Present Modernity Is Clearly Sketched
- New York Times
SALES COMING FAST AT THE TRUCK SHOW; Many Purchases Made by Merchants Who Have Tested __________ Outing Cars.
- New York Times
Words: precedent, president, jury-rigged, jerry-built
Answer:
OM was a glittering hero once more - the pet of the old, the envy of the young. His name even went into immortal print, for the village paper magnified him. There were some that believed he would be President, yet, if he escaped hanging.
- The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer
... And for years afterwards, perhaps, ships shun the place; leaping over it as silly sheep leap over a vacuum, because their leader originally leaped there when a stick was held. There's your law of precedents; there's your utility of traditions; there's the story of your obstinate survival of old beliefs never bottomed on the earth, and now not even hovering in the air!...
- Moby Dick 11
WONDER CITY SEEN IN FILM AT FAIR; Picture Reveals Development of Community From Its Start as Village RUINED VALLEYS DEPICTED Rise From Jerry-Built Houses to Present Modernity Is Clearly Sketched
- New York Times
SALES COMING FAST AT THE TRUCK SHOW; Many Purchases Made by Merchants Who Have Tested Jury-Rigged Outing Cars.
- New York Times
- The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer
... And for years afterwards, perhaps, ships shun the place; leaping over it as silly sheep leap over a vacuum, because their leader originally leaped there when a stick was held. There's your law of precedents; there's your utility of traditions; there's the story of your obstinate survival of old beliefs never bottomed on the earth, and now not even hovering in the air!...
- Moby Dick 11
WONDER CITY SEEN IN FILM AT FAIR; Picture Reveals Development of Community From Its Start as Village RUINED VALLEYS DEPICTED Rise From Jerry-Built Houses to Present Modernity Is Clearly Sketched
- New York Times
SALES COMING FAST AT THE TRUCK SHOW; Many Purchases Made by Merchants Who Have Tested Jury-Rigged Outing Cars.
- New York Times
Solution:
OM was a glittering hero once more - the pet of the old, the envy of the young. His name even went into immortal print, for the village paper magnified him. There were some that believed he would be President, yet, if he escaped hanging.
- The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer
... And for years afterwards, perhaps, ships shun the place; leaping over it as silly sheep leap over a vacuum, because their leader originally leaped there when a stick was held. There's your law of precedents; there's your utility of traditions; there's the story of your obstinate survival of old beliefs never bottomed on the earth, and now not even hovering in the air!...
- Moby Dick 11
WONDER CITY SEEN IN FILM AT FAIR; Picture Reveals Development of Community From Its Start as Village RUINED VALLEYS DEPICTED Rise From Jerry-Built Houses to Present Modernity Is Clearly Sketched
- New York Times
SALES COMING FAST AT THE TRUCK SHOW; Many Purchases Made by Merchants Who Have Tested Jury-Rigged Outing Cars.
- New York Times
Meanings:
president: chairman, chairwoman, chair
precedent: case in point
More meanings and details:
precedents
: noun1. meaning: An act in the past which may be used as an example to help decide the outcome of similar instances in the future.
2. meaning: A decided case which is cited or used as an example to justify a judgment in a subsequent case.
3. meaning: An established habit or custom.
4. meaning: (with definite article) The aforementioned (thing).
5. meaning: The previous version.
6. meaning: A rough draught of a writing which precedes a finished copy.
precedents
: noun: verb1. meaning: To provide precedents for.
2. meaning: To be a precedent for.
president
(/ˈpɹɛzɨdənt/, /ˈpɹɛzɨdənt/): noun1. meaning: An act in the past which may be used as an example to help decide the outcome of similar instances in the future.
2. meaning: A decided case which is cited or used as an example to justify a judgment in a subsequent case.
3. meaning: An established habit or custom.
4. meaning: (with definite article) The aforementioned (thing).
5. meaning: The previous version.
6. meaning: A rough draught of a writing which precedes a finished copy.
president
(/ˈpɹɛzɨdənt/, /ˈpɹɛzɨdənt/): noun: noun1. meaning: The head of state of a republic.
example: The vast majority of presidents have been male.
2. meaning: In presidential republics, the head of government and head of state.
3. meaning: Primary leader of a corporation. Not to be confused with CEO, which is a related but separate position that is sometimes held by a different person.
4. meaning: A person presiding over a meeting, chair, presiding officer, presider.
president
(/ˈpɹɛzɨdənt/, /ˈpɹɛzɨdənt/): noun: noun: adjective1. meaning: Occupying the first rank or chief place; having the highest authority; presiding.
jury-rigged
: verb1. meaning: To make an improvised rigging or assembly from whatever is available.
2. meaning: To create a makeshift, ad hoc solution from resources at hand.
jury-rigged
: verb: verb1. meaning: To rig a jury; to engage in jury rigging (that is, jury tampering); to improperly influence jurors, or the selection of jurors, such that they return a certain result.
jury-rigged
: verb: verb: adjective1. meaning: Improvised from whatever is available.
precedent
(/pɹɪˈsiː.dənt/): noun1. meaning: An act in the past which may be used as an example to help decide the outcome of similar instances in the future.
2. meaning: A decided case which is cited or used as an example to justify a judgment in a subsequent case.
3. meaning: An established habit or custom.
4. meaning: (with definite article) The aforementioned (thing).
5. meaning: The previous version.
6. meaning: A rough draught of a writing which precedes a finished copy.
precedent
(/pɹɪˈsiː.dənt/): noun: verb1. meaning: To provide precedents for.
2. meaning: To be a precedent for.
precedent
(/pɹɪˈsiː.dənt/): noun: verb: adjective1. meaning: Happening or taking place earlier in time; previous or preceding.
2. meaning: Coming before in a particular order or arrangement; preceding, foregoing.
jerry-built
: adjective1. meaning: Built cheaply and shoddily.
presidents
: noun1. meaning: An act in the past which may be used as an example to help decide the outcome of similar instances in the future.
2. meaning: A decided case which is cited or used as an example to justify a judgment in a subsequent case.
3. meaning: An established habit or custom.
4. meaning: (with definite article) The aforementioned (thing).
5. meaning: The previous version.
6. meaning: A rough draught of a writing which precedes a finished copy.
presidents
: noun: noun1. meaning: The head of state of a republic.
example: The vast majority of presidents have been male.
2. meaning: In presidential republics, the head of government and head of state.
3. meaning: Primary leader of a corporation. Not to be confused with CEO, which is a related but separate position that is sometimes held by a different person.
4. meaning: A person presiding over a meeting, chair, presiding officer, presider.
problem_type: 16/30 (loop 0/0)
Please wait ... Problem Template: _problem_match_confusing_words_meanings
Match words with their meanings
| 1. stake | a. slice of meat |
| 2. steak | b. The societal practice of having more than one spouse (especially, more than one wife) at a time |
| 3. bigamy | c. The crime of taking marriage vows while still legally married to someone else |
| 4. polygamy | d. stakes, bet, wager |
Usage:
A video shows To Lam being fed gold-plated steak by the celebrity chef at his expensive London restaurant.
- BBC
Feb 9, 2006 ... ... to distribute tickets, an exercise that the head of the inquiry likened to "throwing a small slice of meat to a pack of hungry wolves."?...
- Economist
... In case you haven't heard, here's a quick recap: the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, which believes in polygamy, (which is different than the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) has a large following near Eldorado where this YFZ Ranch is located....
- Mental Floss
... At one moment they followed the movements of the figure, of the arms and hands, as this problematic sylph bent forward to deposit her stake with an air of firm choice; and the next they returned to the face which, at present unaffected by beholders, was directed steadily toward the game....
- Daniel Deronda
Mr. Rochester continued, hardily and recklessly: "Bigamy is an ugly word!-I meant, however, to be a bigamist; but fate has out-manoeuvred me, or Providence has checked me,-perhaps the last....
- Jane Eyre
Answer:
stake: stakes, bet, wager
steak: slice of meat
bigamy: The crime of taking marriage vows while still legally married to someone else
polygamy: The societal practice of having more than one spouse (especially, more than one wife) at a time
steak: slice of meat
bigamy: The crime of taking marriage vows while still legally married to someone else
polygamy: The societal practice of having more than one spouse (especially, more than one wife) at a time
Solution:
stake: stakes, bet, wager
steak: slice of meat
bigamy: The crime of taking marriage vows while still legally married to someone else
polygamy: The societal practice of having more than one spouse (especially, more than one wife) at a time
Meanings:
steak: slice of meat
stake: stakes, bet, wager
polygamy: The societal practice of having more than one spouse (especially, more than one wife) at a time
bigamy: The crime of taking marriage vows while still legally married to someone else
More meanings and details:
steak
(/steɪk/): noun1. meaning: Beefsteak, a slice of beef, broiled or cut for broiling.
2. meaning: (by extension) A relatively large, thick slice or slab cut from another animal, a vegetable, etc.
3. meaning: (seafood) A slice of meat cut across the grain (perpendicular to the spine) from a fish.
steak
(/steɪk/): noun: verb1. meaning: To cook (something, especially fish) like or as a steak.
stake
(/steɪk/): noun1. meaning: A piece of wood or other material, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven into the ground as a marker or a support or stay.
example: We have surveyor's stakes at all four corners of this field, to mark exactly its borders.
2. meaning: A piece of wood driven in the ground, placed in the middle of the court, that is used as the finishing point after scoring 12 hoops in croquet.
3. meaning: A stick inserted upright in a lop, eye, or mortise, at the side or end of a cart, flat car, flatbed trailer, or the like, to prevent goods from falling off.
4. meaning: (with definite article) The piece of timber to which a person condemned to death was affixed to be burned.
example: Thomas Cranmer was burnt at the stake.
5. meaning: A share or interest in a business or a given situation.
example: The owners let the managers eventually earn a stake in the business.
6. meaning: That which is laid down as a wager; that which is staked or hazarded; a pledge.
7. meaning: A small anvil usually furnished with a tang to enter a hole in a bench top, as used by tinsmiths, blacksmiths, etc., for light work, punching hole in or cutting a work piece, or for specific forming techniques etc.
8. meaning: A territorial division comprising all the Mormons (typically several thousand) in a geographical area.
stake
(/steɪk/): noun: verb1. meaning: To fasten, support, defend, or delineate with stakes.
example: to stake vines or plants
2. meaning: To pierce or wound with a stake.
3. meaning: To put at risk upon success in competition, or upon a future contingency.
4. meaning: To provide another with money in order to engage in an activity as betting or a business venture.
example: His family staked him $10,000 to get his business started.
polygamy
(/pəˈlɪɡəmi/): noun1. meaning: The condition of having more than one spouse or marriage partner at one time.
example: Are there countries where polygamy is legal for both men and women?
2. meaning: The state or habit of having more than one sexual mate.
example: An insect queen actually practices polygamy only one day, while for an alpha-male defending his harem is the very essence of both his status and polygamy.
3. meaning: The condition or state of a plant which bears both perfect and unisexual flowers.
polygamy
(/pəˈlɪɡəmi/): noun: noun1. meaning: The state or practice of having several wives at the same time; plurality of wives; marriage to several wives.
2. meaning: The condition of an ant colony that has multiple egg-laying queens.
bigamy
(/ˈbɪɡəmi/, /ˈbɪɡəmi/): noun1. meaning: The state of having two (legal or illegal) spouses simultaneously.
2. meaning: A second marriage after the death of a spouse.
synonyms: deuterogamy, digamy
problem_type: 17/30 (loop 0/0)
Please wait ... Problem Template: _problem_fill_misspelled_words
Fill in the blanks using correctly spelled words given below.
Use punctuation or change the form of words if needed.
Words: chlorine, cloreen, doublely, doubly
... She understood how her husband had deceived her, and with what base injustice and falsehood he had bought her young love. No question as to how this __________-condemned prisoner had escaped from the hideous isle of punishment she had quitted occurred to her. She asked not-even in her thoughts-how it had been given to him to supplant the chaplain in his place on board the vessel....
- For The Term Of His Natural Life
The door opened and the entire classroom of children looked on in surprise as Rosa Hubermann stood in the doorway. One or two gasped at the sighta small wardrobe of a woman with a lipstick sneer and __________ eyes. This. Was the legend. She was wearing her best clothes, but her hair was a mess, and it
- The Book Thief
Words: chlorine, cloreen, doublely, doubly
Answer:
... She understood how her husband had deceived her, and with what base injustice and falsehood he had bought her young love. No question as to how this doubly-condemned prisoner had escaped from the hideous isle of punishment she had quitted occurred to her. She asked not-even in her thoughts-how it had been given to him to supplant the chaplain in his place on board the vessel....
- For The Term Of His Natural Life
The door opened and the entire classroom of children looked on in surprise as Rosa Hubermann stood in the doorway. One or two gasped at the sighta small wardrobe of a woman with a lipstick sneer and chlorine eyes. This. Was the legend. She was wearing her best clothes, but her hair was a mess, and it
- The Book Thief
- For The Term Of His Natural Life
The door opened and the entire classroom of children looked on in surprise as Rosa Hubermann stood in the doorway. One or two gasped at the sighta small wardrobe of a woman with a lipstick sneer and chlorine eyes. This. Was the legend. She was wearing her best clothes, but her hair was a mess, and it
- The Book Thief
Solution:
... She understood how her husband had deceived her, and with what base injustice and falsehood he had bought her young love. No question as to how this doubly-condemned prisoner had escaped from the hideous isle of punishment she had quitted occurred to her. She asked not-even in her thoughts-how it had been given to him to supplant the chaplain in his place on board the vessel....
- For The Term Of His Natural Life
The door opened and the entire classroom of children looked on in surprise as Rosa Hubermann stood in the doorway. One or two gasped at the sighta small wardrobe of a woman with a lipstick sneer and chlorine eyes. This. Was the legend. She was wearing her best clothes, but her hair was a mess, and it
- The Book Thief
More meanings and details:
doubly
(/ˈdʌb.li/): adverb1. meaning: (usually of relative importance, of degree, quantity or measure) In a double manner; twice the severity or degree.
example: My mother was always doubly careful when winding the grandfather clock.
2. meaning: In two ways
example: Stealing and then lying about it is doubly wrong.
3. meaning: With duplicity
chlorine
(/ˈklɔːɹiːn/, /ˈklɔɹin/): noun1. meaning: A toxic, green, gaseous chemical element (symbol Cl) with an atomic number of 17.
synonyms: E925
2. meaning: A single atom of this element.
problem_type: 18/30 (loop 0/0)
Problem Template: _problem_find_misspelled_out
Find odd spellings out.
- curmugeon
- balaster
- firey
- fiery
- purview
Answer:
- curmugeon
- balaster
- firey
- fiery
- purview
purview, fiery
All others are wrongly spelled.
Solution:
- curmugeon
- balaster
- firey
- fiery
- purview
purview, fiery
All others are wrongly spelled.
Meanings:
purview: A person's range of authority and control
More meanings and details:
fiery
(/ˈfaɪəɹi/): adjective1. meaning: Of or relating to fire.
2. meaning: Burning or glowing.
3. meaning: Inflammable or easily ignited.
4. meaning: Having the colour of fire.
5. meaning: Hot or inflamed.
6. meaning: Tempestuous or emotionally volatile.
example: a fiery temper
7. meaning: Spirited or filled with emotion.
purview
: noun1. meaning: The enacting part of a statute.
2. meaning: The scope of a statute.
3. meaning: Scope or range of interest or control.
4. meaning: Range of understanding.
Usage:
... If the whole picture gave this impression of harbours in which the sea entered into the land, in which the land was already subaqueous and the population amphibian, the strength of the marine element was everywhere apparent; and round about the rocks, at the mouth of the harbour, where the sea was rough, you felt from the muscular efforts of the fishermen and the obliquity of the boats leaning over at an acute angle, compared with the calm erect-ness of the warehouse on the harbour, the church, the houses of the town to which some of the figures were returning while others were coming out to fish, that they were riding bareback on the water, as it might be a swift and fiery animal whose rearing, but for their skill, must have unseated them. A party of holiday makers were putting gaily out to sea in a boat that tossed like a jaunting-car on a rough road; their boatman, blithe but attentive, also, to what he was doing, trimmed the bellying sail, every one kept in his place, so that the weight should not be all on one side of the boat, which might capsize, and so they went racing over sunlit fields into shadowy places, dashing down into the troughs of waves....
- Within A Budding Grove
is certainly an immense repository of historical information: French bankruptcy procedure, methods of paper manufacture, styles of dress, the topography of Paris and of numerous provincial towns, fashions in house furnishing, the political attitudes of the aristocracy after 1815 all come into its purview), it is certainly important to bear Balzac's scheme of priorities in mind. The historical material provided in
- The Black Sheep
problem_type: 19/30 (loop 0/0)
Please wait ... Problem Template: _problem_fill_gender_words
Fill in the blanks with words, including other gender forms of the words.
Words: bachelor, bitch/dam, dog, dog/stud, spinster
"So Herbert and Clara say, but I don't think I shall, Biddy. I have so settled down in their home, that it's not at all likely. I am already quite an old __________."
- Great Expectations
I had often watched a large __________ of ours eating his food; and I now noticed a decided similarity between the __________'s way of eating, and the man's....
- Great Expectations
... Dickens's nineteenth-century England is ours. His plucky orphans and angelic maidens, jolly bachelors and eccentric __________, child pickpockets and criminals in the dock, Scrooges and Tiny Tims-these are our Victorians; we recognize them when we see them....
- Great Expectations
Words: bachelor, bitch/dam, dog, dog/stud, spinster
Answer:
"So Herbert and Clara say, but I don't think I shall, Biddy. I have so settled down in their home, that it's not at all likely. I am already quite an old bachelor."
- Great Expectations
I had often watched a large dog of ours eating his food; and I now noticed a decided similarity between the dog's way of eating, and the man's....
- Great Expectations
... Dickens's nineteenth-century England is ours. His plucky orphans and angelic maidens, jolly bachelors and eccentric spinsters, child pickpockets and criminals in the dock, Scrooges and Tiny Tims-these are our Victorians; we recognize them when we see them....
- Great Expectations
- Great Expectations
I had often watched a large dog of ours eating his food; and I now noticed a decided similarity between the dog's way of eating, and the man's....
- Great Expectations
... Dickens's nineteenth-century England is ours. His plucky orphans and angelic maidens, jolly bachelors and eccentric spinsters, child pickpockets and criminals in the dock, Scrooges and Tiny Tims-these are our Victorians; we recognize them when we see them....
- Great Expectations
Solution:
"So Herbert and Clara say, but I don't think I shall, Biddy. I have so settled down in their home, that it's not at all likely. I am already quite an old bachelor."
- Great Expectations
I had often watched a large dog of ours eating his food; and I now noticed a decided similarity between the dog's way of eating, and the man's....
- Great Expectations
... Dickens's nineteenth-century England is ours. His plucky orphans and angelic maidens, jolly bachelors and eccentric spinsters, child pickpockets and criminals in the dock, Scrooges and Tiny Tims-these are our Victorians; we recognize them when we see them....
- Great Expectations
Meanings:
dog: domestic dog
More meanings and details:
dogs
(/dɑɡz/, /dɒɡz/, /dɔɡz/, /dɑɡz/): noun1. meaning: A mammal, Canis familiaris or Canis lupus familiaris, that has been domesticated for thousands of years, of highly variable appearance due to human breeding.
example: The dog barked all night long.
2. meaning: Any member of the Family Canidae, including domestic dogs, wolves, coyotes, jackals, foxes, and their relatives (extant and extinct); canid.
3. meaning: A male dog, wolf or fox, as opposed to a bitch or vixen.
4. meaning: A dull, unattractive girl or woman.
example: She’s a real dog.
5. meaning: A man (derived from definition 2).
example: He's a silly dog.
6. meaning: A coward.
example: Come back and fight, you dogs!
7. meaning: Someone who is morally reprehensible.
example: You dirty dog.
8. meaning: A sexually aggressive man (cf. horny).
9. meaning: Any of various mechanical devices for holding, gripping, or fastening something, particularly with a tooth-like projection.
10. meaning: A click or pallet adapted to engage the teeth of a ratchet-wheel, to restrain the back action; a click or pawl. (See also: ratchet, windlass)
11. meaning: A metal support for logs in a fireplace.
example: The dogs were too hot to touch.
12. meaning: The eighteenth Lenormand card.
13. meaning: A hot dog.
14. meaning: Underdog.
15. meaning: (almost always in the plural) Foot.
16. meaning: (from "dog and bone") Phone or mobile phone.
example: My dog is dead.
17. meaning: One of the cones used to divide up a racetrack when training horses.
18. meaning: A flop; a film that performs poorly at the box office.
dogs
(/dɑɡz/, /dɒɡz/, /dɔɡz/, /dɑɡz/): noun: verb1. meaning: To pursue with the intent to catch.
2. meaning: To follow in an annoying or harassing way.
example: The woman cursed him so that trouble would dog his every step.
3. meaning: To fasten a hatch securely.
example: It is very important to dog down these hatches...
4. meaning: To watch, or participate, in sexual activity in a public place.
example: I admit that I like to dog at my local country park.
5. meaning: To intentionally restrict one's productivity as employee; to work at the slowest rate that goes unpunished.
example: A surprise inspection of the night shift found that some workers were dogging it.
6. meaning: To criticize.
7. meaning: To divide (a watch) with a comrade.
dogs
(/dɑɡz/, /dɒɡz/, /dɔɡz/, /dɑɡz/): noun: verb: noun1. meaning: Meat from a dog eaten as food.
example: We visited South Korea this time around, where we ate dog meat for the first time.
2. meaning: Meat prepared to be given to a dog as food.
3. meaning: An insult intended to assert hyperbolically that another person has value only as a corpse to be fed to a dog.
example: Did you just step on my blue suede shoes? You're dog meat now!
dogs
(/dɑɡz/, /dɒɡz/, /dɔɡz/, /dɑɡz/): noun: verb: noun: noun1. meaning: Feet, from rhyming slang dog's meat.
example: My dogs are tired. Let's get a taxi.
2. meaning: (usually with the) A greyhound racing event; the sport of greyhound racing.
example: I lost money at the dogs last night.
3. meaning: Fasteners securing a watertight hatch.
dog
(/dɑɡ/, /dɒɡ/, /dɔɡ/, /dɑɡ/): noun1. meaning: A mammal, Canis familiaris or Canis lupus familiaris, that has been domesticated for thousands of years, of highly variable appearance due to human breeding.
example: The dog barked all night long.
2. meaning: Any member of the Family Canidae, including domestic dogs, wolves, coyotes, jackals, foxes, and their relatives (extant and extinct); canid.
3. meaning: A male dog, wolf or fox, as opposed to a bitch or vixen.
4. meaning: A dull, unattractive girl or woman.
example: She’s a real dog.
5. meaning: A man (derived from definition 2).
example: He's a silly dog.
6. meaning: A coward.
example: Come back and fight, you dogs!
7. meaning: Someone who is morally reprehensible.
example: You dirty dog.
8. meaning: A sexually aggressive man (cf. horny).
9. meaning: Any of various mechanical devices for holding, gripping, or fastening something, particularly with a tooth-like projection.
10. meaning: A click or pallet adapted to engage the teeth of a ratchet-wheel, to restrain the back action; a click or pawl. (See also: ratchet, windlass)
11. meaning: A metal support for logs in a fireplace.
example: The dogs were too hot to touch.
12. meaning: The eighteenth Lenormand card.
13. meaning: A hot dog.
14. meaning: Underdog.
15. meaning: (almost always in the plural) Foot.
16. meaning: (from "dog and bone") Phone or mobile phone.
example: My dog is dead.
17. meaning: One of the cones used to divide up a racetrack when training horses.
18. meaning: A flop; a film that performs poorly at the box office.
dog
(/dɑɡ/, /dɒɡ/, /dɔɡ/, /dɑɡ/): noun: verb1. meaning: To pursue with the intent to catch.
2. meaning: To follow in an annoying or harassing way.
example: The woman cursed him so that trouble would dog his every step.
3. meaning: To fasten a hatch securely.
example: It is very important to dog down these hatches...
4. meaning: To watch, or participate, in sexual activity in a public place.
example: I admit that I like to dog at my local country park.
5. meaning: To intentionally restrict one's productivity as employee; to work at the slowest rate that goes unpunished.
example: A surprise inspection of the night shift found that some workers were dogging it.
6. meaning: To criticize.
7. meaning: To divide (a watch) with a comrade.
dog
(/dɑɡ/, /dɒɡ/, /dɔɡ/, /dɑɡ/): noun: verb: noun1. meaning: Meat from a dog eaten as food.
example: We visited South Korea this time around, where we ate dog meat for the first time.
2. meaning: Meat prepared to be given to a dog as food.
3. meaning: An insult intended to assert hyperbolically that another person has value only as a corpse to be fed to a dog.
example: Did you just step on my blue suede shoes? You're dog meat now!
dogging
(/ˈdɑɡɪŋ/, /ˈdɒɡɪŋ/, /ˈdɔɡɪŋ/): verb1. meaning: To pursue with the intent to catch.
2. meaning: To follow in an annoying or harassing way.
example: The woman cursed him so that trouble would dog his every step.
3. meaning: To fasten a hatch securely.
example: It is very important to dog down these hatches...
4. meaning: To watch, or participate, in sexual activity in a public place.
example: I admit that I like to dog at my local country park.
5. meaning: To intentionally restrict one's productivity as employee; to work at the slowest rate that goes unpunished.
example: A surprise inspection of the night shift found that some workers were dogging it.
6. meaning: To criticize.
7. meaning: To divide (a watch) with a comrade.
dogging
(/ˈdɑɡɪŋ/, /ˈdɒɡɪŋ/, /ˈdɔɡɪŋ/): verb: noun1. meaning: The act of one who dogs or harasses.
2. meaning: The practice of having sexual intercourse in public places, especially parks, deliberately taking the chance of being watched.
spinster
(/ˈspɪnstə/, /ˈspɪnstɚ/): noun1. meaning: (sometimes derogatory) A woman who has never been married, especially one past the typical marrying age according to social traditions.
synonyms: old maid
2. meaning: One who spins (puts a spin on) a political media story so as to give something a favorable or advantageous appearance; a spin doctor, spin merchant or spin master.
3. meaning: Someone whose occupation was spinning thread.
4. meaning: A woman of evil life and character; so called from being forced to spin in a house of correction.
5. meaning: A spider; an insect (such as a silkworm) which spins thread.
dogged
(, /dɒɡd/, /dɔɡd/): verb1. meaning: To pursue with the intent to catch.
2. meaning: To follow in an annoying or harassing way.
example: The woman cursed him so that trouble would dog his every step.
3. meaning: To fasten a hatch securely.
example: It is very important to dog down these hatches...
4. meaning: To watch, or participate, in sexual activity in a public place.
example: I admit that I like to dog at my local country park.
5. meaning: To intentionally restrict one's productivity as employee; to work at the slowest rate that goes unpunished.
example: A surprise inspection of the night shift found that some workers were dogging it.
6. meaning: To criticize.
7. meaning: To divide (a watch) with a comrade.
dogged
(/ˈdɒɡɪd/, /ˈdɔɡɪd/): adjective1. meaning: Stubbornly persevering, steadfast
dogged
(/ˈdɒɡɪd/, /ˈdɔɡɪd/): adjective: adverb1. meaning: Very
spinsters
: noun1. meaning: (sometimes derogatory) A woman who has never been married, especially one past the typical marrying age according to social traditions.
synonyms: old maid
2. meaning: One who spins (puts a spin on) a political media story so as to give something a favorable or advantageous appearance; a spin doctor, spin merchant or spin master.
3. meaning: Someone whose occupation was spinning thread.
4. meaning: A woman of evil life and character; so called from being forced to spin in a house of correction.
5. meaning: A spider; an insect (such as a silkworm) which spins thread.
bachelor
(/ˈbætʃ.ə.lə(ɹ)/, /ˈbætʃ.lɚ/): noun1. meaning: A person, especially a man, who is socially regarded as able to marry, but has not yet.
2. meaning: The first or lowest academical degree conferred by universities and colleges; a bachelor's degree.
3. meaning: Someone who has achieved a bachelor's degree.
4. meaning: A bachelor apartment.
5. meaning: An unmarried woman.
6. meaning: A knight who had no standard of his own, but fought under the standard of another in the field.
7. meaning: Among London tradesmen, a junior member not yet admitted to wear the livery.
8. meaning: A kind of bass, an edible freshwater fish (Pomoxis annularis) of the southern United States.
bachelors
: noun1. meaning: A person, especially a man, who is socially regarded as able to marry, but has not yet.
2. meaning: The first or lowest academical degree conferred by universities and colleges; a bachelor's degree.
3. meaning: Someone who has achieved a bachelor's degree.
4. meaning: A bachelor apartment.
5. meaning: An unmarried woman.
6. meaning: A knight who had no standard of his own, but fought under the standard of another in the field.
7. meaning: Among London tradesmen, a junior member not yet admitted to wear the livery.
8. meaning: A kind of bass, an edible freshwater fish (Pomoxis annularis) of the southern United States.
problem_type: 20/30 (loop 0/0)
Problem Template: _problem_gender_match_columns
Match opposite genders
| 1. drone | a. queen |
| 2. masculine | b. female |
| 3. daddy | c. mummy |
| 4. male | d. feminine |
Usage:
"Thirty to forty group!" yapped a piercing female voice. "Thirty to forty group! Take your places, please. Thirties to forties!"
- 19841984
agree with you", uttered in a youthful and rather silly feminine voice. But the other voice never stopped for an instant, even when the girl was speaking. Winston knew the man by sight, though he knew no more about him than that he held some important post in the Fiction Department....
- 19841984
... It was additionally disconcerting to have madame knitting all the way there, in a public conveyance; it was additionally disconcerting yet, to have madame in the crowd in the afternoon, still with her knitting in her hands as the crowd waited to see the carriage of the King and Queen.
- A Tale Of Two Cities
A sumptuous man was the Farmer-General. Thirty horses stood in his stables, twenty-four male domestics sat in his halls, six body-women waited on his wife. As one who pretended to do nothing but plunder and forage where he could, the Farmer-General-howsoever his matrimonial relations conduced to social morality-was at least the greatest reality among the personages who attended at the hotel of Monseigneur that day....
- A Tale Of Two Cities
... The lady's complexion was almost swarthy, and the dark down on her upper lip was almost a moustache. She had a large, firm, masculine mouth and jaw; prominent, piercing, resolute brown eyes; and thick, coal-black hair, growing unusually low down on her forehead....
- The Woman In White
"They carried him into my house," appended Jordan, "because we lived just two doors from the church. And he stayed three weeks, until Daddy told him he had to get out. The day after he left Daddy died." After a moment she added as if she might have sounded irreverent, "There wasn't any connection....
- The Great Gatsby
...oise had removed her pins from the mouldings of the window-frame, taken down her various cloths, and drawn back the curtains, the summer day which she disclosed seemed as dead, as immemorially ancient as would have been a sumptuously attired dynastic mummy from which our old servant had done no more than pre-cautionally unwind the linen wrappings before displaying it to my gaze, embalmed in its vesture of gold....
- Within A Budding Grove
... This alone, I was convinced, had driven him out to the edge of the forest, to the bush, towards the gleam of fires, the throb of drums, the drone of weird incantations; this alone had beguiled his unlawful soul beyond the bounds of permitted aspirations....
- Heart Of Darkness
Answer:
drone: queen
masculine: feminine
daddy: mummy
male: female
masculine: feminine
daddy: mummy
male: female
Solution:
drone: queen
masculine: feminine
daddy: mummy
male: female
Meanings:
queen: female monarch
feminine: womanly
More meanings and details:
mummy
(/ˈmʌmi/, /ˈmʌmi/): noun1. meaning: An embalmed human or animal corpse wrapped in linen bandages for burial, especially as practised by the ancient Egyptians and some Native American tribes.
2. meaning: (by extension) A reanimated embalmed human corpse, as a typical character in horror films.
3. meaning: (by extension) Any naturally preserved human or animal body.
4. meaning: A brown pigment originally prepared from the ground-up remains of Egyptian animal or human mummies mixed with bitumen, etc.
synonyms: mummy brown
5. meaning: A pulp.
6. meaning: A substance used in medicine, prepared from mummified flesh.
7. meaning: A sort of wax used in grafting.
mummy
(/ˈmʌmi/, /ˈmʌmi/): noun: verb1. meaning: To mummify.
mummy
(/ˈmʌmi/, /ˈmʌmi/): noun1. meaning: (usually childish) mother.
drone
(/dɹəʊn/, /dɹoʊn/): noun1. meaning: A male ant, bee or wasp, which does not work but can fertilize the queen bee.
2. meaning: Someone who does not work; a lazy person, an idler.
3. meaning: One who performs menial or tedious work.
synonyms: drudge
4. meaning: A remotely controlled aircraft, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).
example: One team member launched a camera drone over the Third Pole.
synonyms: UAS, UAV
drone
(/dɹəʊn/, /dɹoʊn/): noun: verb1. meaning: To kill with a missile fired by unmanned aircraft.
drone
(/dɹəʊn/, /dɹoʊn/): noun1. meaning: A low-pitched hum or buzz.
2. meaning: One of the fixed-pitch pipes on a bagpipe.
3. meaning: A genre of music that uses repeated lengthy droning sounds.
4. meaning: A humming or deep murmuring sound.
drone
(/dɹəʊn/, /dɹoʊn/): noun: verb1. meaning: To produce a low-pitched hum or buzz.
2. meaning: To speak in a monotone way.
masculine
(/ˈmæskjələn/, /ˈmæskjələn/, /ˈmæskjulɪn/): noun1. meaning: (grammar) The masculine gender.
2. meaning: (grammar) A word of the masculine gender.
3. meaning: That which is masculine.
4. meaning: (possibly obsolete) A man.
masculine
(/ˈmæskjələn/, /ˈmæskjələn/, /ˈmæskjulɪn/): noun: adjective1. meaning: Of or pertaining to the male gender; manly.
2. meaning: Of or pertaining to the male sex; biologically male, not female.
synonyms: male
antonyms: female, womanly
3. meaning: Belonging to males; typically used by males.
example: “John”, “Paul” and “Jake” are masculine names.
4. meaning: Having the qualities stereotypically associated with men: virile, aggressive, not effeminate.
synonyms: manly, virile
antonyms: effeminate, emasculated, epicene, unmanly
5. meaning: (grammar) Of, pertaining or belonging to the male grammatical gender, in languages that have gender distinctions.
queen
(/kwiːn/): noun1. meaning: A female monarch. Example: Queen Victoria.
2. meaning: The wife or widow of a king.
3. meaning: The most powerful piece, able to move any number of spaces horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.
4. meaning: A playing card with the letter "Q" and the image of a queen on it, the twelfth card in a given suit.
5. meaning: A red disk that is the most valuable piece in the Asian game of carom.
6. meaning: A powerful or forceful female person.
7. meaning: An effeminate male homosexual. (See usage notes.)
8. meaning: A reproductive female animal in a hive, such as an ant, bee, termite or wasp.
9. meaning: An adult female cat valued for breeding. See also tom.
10. meaning: A queen olive.
11. meaning: A monarch butterfly (Danaus spp., esp. Danaus gilippus).
queen
(/kwiːn/): noun: verb1. meaning: To make a queen.
2. meaning: To act the part of a queen; to queen it.
3. meaning: To promote a pawn, usually to a queen.
4. meaning: To provide with a new queen.
5. meaning: To be the queen of a colony.
6. meaning: (BDSM, of a female) To sit on the face of (a partner) to receive oral sex.
feminine
(/ˈfɛmənɪn/): noun1. meaning: That which is feminine.
2. meaning: (possibly obsolete) A woman.
3. meaning: (grammar) The feminine gender.
4. meaning: (grammar) A word of the feminine gender.
feminine
(/ˈfɛmənɪn/): noun: adjective1. meaning: Of or pertaining to the female gender; womanly.
2. meaning: Of or pertaining to the female sex; biologically female, not male.
3. meaning: Belonging to females; typically used by females.
example: Mary, Elizabeth, and Edith are feminine names.
4. meaning: Having the qualities stereotypically associated with women: nurturing, not aggressive.
5. meaning: (grammar) Of, pertaining or belonging to the female grammatical gender, in languages that have gender distinctions.
female
(/ˈfiː.meɪl/): noun1. meaning: One of the female (feminine) sex or gender.
female
(/ˈfiː.meɪl/): noun: adjective1. meaning: Belonging to the sex which typically produces eggs (ova), or to the gender which is typically associated with it.
example: female authors, the leading male and female artists, a female bird cooing at a male, intersex female patients, a trans female vlogger
2. meaning: Characteristic of this sex/gender. (Compare feminine, womanly.)
example: stereotypically female pastimes, an insect with typically female coloration
3. meaning: Tending to lead to or regulate the development of sexual characteristics typical of this sex.
example: the female chromosome; estrogen, the primary female sex hormone, is produced by both females and males
4. meaning: (grammar, less common than 'feminine') Feminine; of the feminine grammatical gender.
5. meaning: Having an internal socket, as in a connector or pipe fitting.
male
(/meɪl/, /meɪl/): noun1. meaning: One of the male (masculine) sex or gender.
male
(/meɪl/, /meɪl/): noun: adjective1. meaning: Belonging to the sex which typically produces sperm, or to the gender which is typically associated with it.
example: a male bird feeding a seed to a female
2. meaning: Characteristic of this sex/gender. (Compare masculine, manly.)
example: stereotypically male interests, an insect with typically male coloration
3. meaning: Tending to lead to or regulate the development of sexual characteristics typical of this sex.
example: the male chromosome; like testes, ovaries also produce testosterone and some other male hormones
4. meaning: (grammar, less common than 'masculine') Masculine; of the masculine grammatical gender.
5. meaning: Of instruments, tools, or connectors: designed to fit into or penetrate a female counterpart, as in a connector, pipe fitting or laboratory glassware.
daddy
(/ˈdædi/, /ˈdædi/): noun1. meaning: (usually childish) Father.
2. meaning: A male lover.
3. meaning: An informal term of address for a man.
example: Rock 'n' roll is cool, daddy, and you know it!
4. meaning: A male juvenile delinquent in a reformatory who dominates the other inmates through threats and violence.
daddy
(/ˈdædi/, /ˈdædi/): noun: verb1. meaning: To father; to sire.
problem_type: 21/30 (loop 0/0)
Problem Template: _problem_option_genders
Select the masculine gender out.
- leopard
- drake
- butler
- male
- maid
Usage:
Sir Leicester receives the gout as a troublesome demon, but still a demon of the patrician order. All the Dedlocks, in the direct male line, through a course of time during and beyond which the memory of man goeth not to the contrary, have had the gout....
- Bleak House
My Lady's maid is a Frenchwoman of two and thirty, from somewhere in the southern country about Avignon and Marseilles, a large-eyed brown woman with black hair who would be handsome but for a certain feline mouth and general uncomfortable tightness of face, rendering the jaws too eager and the skull too prominent....
- Bleak House
'Mine was,' says Mr. Bucket. 'My father was first a page, then a footman, then a butler, then a steward, then an inn-keeper. Lived universally respected, and died lamented. Said with his last breath that he considered service the most honourable part of his career, and so it was....
- Bleak House
... 'It's got hair just like spider-webs, and bright orange, and the oddest, cheekiest, pale-blue china eyes. Of course it's a girl, or it wouldn't be so bold, bolder than any little Sir Francis Drake.'
- Lady Chatterlys Lover
... I found him by his blood staining the water, and by the help of a rope which I flung round him and gave the Negroes to haul, they dragged him on shore, and found that it was a most curious leopard, spotted and fine to an admirable degree, and the Negroes held up their hands with admiration to think what it was I had killed him with....
- Robinson Crusoe
Answer:
- leopard
- drake
- butler
- male
- maid
maid
Solution:
- leopard
- drake
- butler
- male
- maid
maid
Meanings:
maid: maidservant, housemaid
More meanings and details:
leopard
(/ˈlɛpəd/, /ˈlɛpɚd/): noun1. meaning: Panthera pardus, a large wild cat with a spotted coat native to Africa and Asia, especially the male of the species (in contrast to leopardess).
2. meaning: (inexact) A similar-looking, large wild cat named after the leopard.
3. meaning: A lion passant guardant.
4. meaning: Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Phalanta, having black markings on an orange base.
drake
(/dɹeɪk/): noun1. meaning: A male duck.
drake
(/dɹeɪk/): noun1. meaning: A mayfly used as fishing bait.
2. meaning: A dragon.
3. meaning: A small piece of artillery.
4. meaning: A fiery meteor.
5. meaning: A beaked galley, or Viking warship.
butler
(/ˈbʌt.lə(ɹ)/, /ˈbʌt.lɚ/): noun1. meaning: A manservant having charge of wines and liquors.
2. meaning: The chief male servant of a household who has charge of other employees, receives guests, directs the serving of meals, and performs various personal services.
3. meaning: A valet, a male personal attendant.
butler
(/ˈbʌt.lə(ɹ)/, /ˈbʌt.lɚ/): noun: verb1. meaning: To buttle, to dispense wines or liquors; to take the place of a butler.
male
(/meɪl/, /meɪl/): noun1. meaning: One of the male (masculine) sex or gender.
male
(/meɪl/, /meɪl/): noun: adjective1. meaning: Belonging to the sex which typically produces sperm, or to the gender which is typically associated with it.
example: a male bird feeding a seed to a female
2. meaning: Characteristic of this sex/gender. (Compare masculine, manly.)
example: stereotypically male interests, an insect with typically male coloration
3. meaning: Tending to lead to or regulate the development of sexual characteristics typical of this sex.
example: the male chromosome; like testes, ovaries also produce testosterone and some other male hormones
4. meaning: (grammar, less common than 'masculine') Masculine; of the masculine grammatical gender.
5. meaning: Of instruments, tools, or connectors: designed to fit into or penetrate a female counterpart, as in a connector, pipe fitting or laboratory glassware.
maid
(/meɪd/): noun1. meaning: A girl or an unmarried young woman; maiden.
2. meaning: A female servant or cleaner (short for maidservant).
3. meaning: A virgin, now female but originally one of either gender.
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Problem Template: _problem_find_odd_gender
Find odd genders out.
- countess
- cow
- female
- male
- duchess
Usage:
The field at Hitler Youth just got fertilized. He gave his shirt another halfhearted, disgusted appraisal. Its cow manure, I think.
- The Book Thief
The dynamic train guard duo made their way back to the mother, the girl, and the small male corpse. I clearly remember that my breath was loud that day. Im surprised the guards didnt notice me as they walked by....
- The Book Thief
Hans continued his examination of the remaining leg while Liesel tried on her new uniform. Ten years old meant Hitler Youth. Hitler Youth meant a small brown uniform. Being female, Liesel was enrolled into what was called the BDM.
- The Book Thief
...'s, they were actually more intelligent, in the elementary schools, at least, than town children, and of the following opinion of Paleologue's countess: 5
- New School In Russia
Now thou hast it. Lady Barbara, thou knowest, lifted up in circumstances and by pride, never appears or produces herself, but on occasions special-to pass to men of quality or price for a duchess, or
- Clarissa
Answer:
- countess
- cow
- female
- male
- duchess
male
All others are feminine.
Solution:
- countess
- cow
- female
- male
- duchess
male
All others are feminine.
Meanings:
cow: bovine
More meanings and details:
countess
(/ˈkaʊntɨs/): noun1. meaning: The wife of a count or earl.
2. meaning: A woman holding the rank of count or earl in her own right; a female holder of an earldom.
example: Elizabeth Millicent Leveson-Gower is 24th Countess of Sutherland; her son will be the 25th Earl.
cow
(/kaʊ/, /kaʊ/): noun1. meaning: (properly) An adult female of the species Bos taurus, especially one that has calved.
2. meaning: (formerly inexact but now common) Any member of the species Bos taurus regardless of sex or age, including bulls and calves.
3. meaning: Beef: the meat of cattle as food.
4. meaning: Any bovines or bovids generally, including yaks, buffalo, etc.
5. meaning: A female member of other large species of mammal, including the bovines, moose, whales, seals, hippos, rhinos, manatees, and elephants.
6. meaning: A woman considered unpleasant in some way, particularly one considered nasty, stupid, fat, lazy, or difficult.
7. meaning: A chock: a wedge or brake used to stop a machine or car.
cow
(/kaʊ/, /kaʊ/): verb1. meaning: (chiefly in the passive voice) To intimidate; to daunt the spirits or courage of.
example: Con artists are not cowed by the law.
cow
(/kaʊ/, /kaʊ/): noun1. meaning: A chimney cowl.
female
(/ˈfiː.meɪl/): noun1. meaning: One of the female (feminine) sex or gender.
female
(/ˈfiː.meɪl/): noun: adjective1. meaning: Belonging to the sex which typically produces eggs (ova), or to the gender which is typically associated with it.
example: female authors, the leading male and female artists, a female bird cooing at a male, intersex female patients, a trans female vlogger
2. meaning: Characteristic of this sex/gender. (Compare feminine, womanly.)
example: stereotypically female pastimes, an insect with typically female coloration
3. meaning: Tending to lead to or regulate the development of sexual characteristics typical of this sex.
example: the female chromosome; estrogen, the primary female sex hormone, is produced by both females and males
4. meaning: (grammar, less common than 'feminine') Feminine; of the feminine grammatical gender.
5. meaning: Having an internal socket, as in a connector or pipe fitting.
male
(/meɪl/, /meɪl/): noun1. meaning: One of the male (masculine) sex or gender.
male
(/meɪl/, /meɪl/): noun: adjective1. meaning: Belonging to the sex which typically produces sperm, or to the gender which is typically associated with it.
example: a male bird feeding a seed to a female
2. meaning: Characteristic of this sex/gender. (Compare masculine, manly.)
example: stereotypically male interests, an insect with typically male coloration
3. meaning: Tending to lead to or regulate the development of sexual characteristics typical of this sex.
example: the male chromosome; like testes, ovaries also produce testosterone and some other male hormones
4. meaning: (grammar, less common than 'masculine') Masculine; of the masculine grammatical gender.
5. meaning: Of instruments, tools, or connectors: designed to fit into or penetrate a female counterpart, as in a connector, pipe fitting or laboratory glassware.
duchess
(/ˈdʌt͡ʃəs/): noun1. meaning: The wife or widow of a duke.
2. meaning: The female ruler of a duchy.
duchess
(/ˈdʌt͡ʃəs/): noun: verb1. meaning: To court or curry favour for political or business advantage; to flatter obsequiously.
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Please wait ... Problem Template: _problem_word_with_opposite_gender
What are female form of words whose neutral form is duck?
Answer:
neutral: duck
female: duck, duck/hen
female: duck, duck/hen
Solution:
neutral: duck
female: duck, duck/hen
During the progress of this memorable holiday, little Rawdon, if he had got no special liking for his uncle, always awful and cold and locked up in his study, plunged in justice-business and surrounded by bailiffs and farmers -has gained the good graces of his married and maiden aunts, of the two little folks of the Hall, and of Jim of the Rectory, whom Sir Pitt is encouraging to pay his addresses to one of the young ladies, with an understanding doubtless that he shall be presented to the living when it shall be vacated by his fox-hunting old sire. Jim has given up that sport himself and confines himself to a little harmless duck- or snipe-shooting, or a little quiet trifling with the rats during the Christmas holidays, after which he will return to the University and try and not be plucked, once more....
- VanityFair
Meanings:
duck: bird
More meanings and details:
duck
(/dʌk/, /dʌk/): verb1. meaning: To quickly lower the head or body in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
2. meaning: To quickly lower (the head) in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
3. meaning: To lower (something) into water; to thrust or plunge under liquid and suddenly withdraw.
4. meaning: To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to plunge one's head into water or other liquid.
5. meaning: To bow.
6. meaning: To evade doing something.
7. meaning: To lower the volume of (a sound) so that other sounds in the mix can be heard more clearly.
8. meaning: To enter a place for a short moment.
example: I'm just going to duck into the loo for a minute, can you hold my bag?
duck
(/dʌk/, /dʌk/): noun1. meaning: An aquatic bird of the family Anatidae, having a flat bill and webbed feet.
2. meaning: Specifically, an adult female duck; contrasted with drake and with duckling.
3. meaning: The flesh of a duck used as food.
4. meaning: A batsman's score of zero after getting out. (short for duck's egg, since the digit "0" is round like an egg.)
5. meaning: A playing card with the rank of two.
6. meaning: A partly-flooded cave passage with limited air space.
7. meaning: A building intentionally constructed in the shape of an everyday object to which it is related.
example: A luncheonette in the shape of a coffee cup is particularly conspicuous, as is intended of an architectural duck or folly.
8. meaning: A marble to be shot at with another marble (the shooter) in children's games.
9. meaning: A cairn used to mark a trail.
10. meaning: One of the weights used to hold a spline in place for the purpose of drawing a curve.
11. meaning: A long-necked medical urinal for men.
duck
(/dʌk/, /dʌk/): noun: noun1. meaning: A person or thing that is helpless, inefficient or disabled.
2. meaning: An elected official who has lost the recent election or is not eligible for reelection and is marking time until leaving office.
example: Congressman Jones was a lame duck and did not vote on many issues that were important to his constituents.
3. meaning: A person who cannot fulfill their contracts.
duck
(/dʌk/, /dʌk/): noun1. meaning: A tightly-woven cotton fabric used as sailcloth.
2. meaning: (in plural) Trousers made of such material.
duck
(/dʌk/, /dʌk/): noun1. meaning: A term of endearment; pet; darling.
example: And hold-fast is the only dog, my duck (William Shakespeare - The Life of King Henry the Fifth, Act 2, Scene 3).
2. meaning: Dear, mate (informal way of addressing a friend or stranger).
example: Ay up duck, ow'a'tha?
problem_type: 24/30 (loop 0/0)
Problem Template: _problem_thesaurus_match_synonyms
Match words with their synonyms
| 1. surrealism | a. art |
| 2. powerful | b. chance |
| 3. inauspicious | c. magnate |
| 4. fealty | d. honor |
Usage:
Passepartout, enchanted with his discovery, resolved to say nothing to his master, lest he should be justly offended at this mistrust on the part of his adversaries. But he determined to chaff Fix, when he had the chance, with mysterious allusions, which, however, need not betray his real suspicions.
- Around The World In 8080 Days
... He would have crushed the first buffaloes, no doubt, with the cow-catcher; but the locomotive, however powerful, would soon have been checked, the train would inevitably have been thrown off the track, and would then have been helpless....
- Around The World In 8080 Days
... Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise they would be arrested off-hand. The artistic thing is, to unmask honest countenances; it's no light task, I admit, but a real art.'
- Around The World In 8080 Days
'Not too much so,' replied d'Artagnan, with a bow that was not deficient in dignity, 'since you do me the honor to draw a sword with me while suffering from a wound which is very inconvenient.'
- The Three Musketeers
She should certainly return from her exile-she did not doubt that a single instant; but how long might this exile last? For an active, ambitious nature, like that of Milady, days not spent in climbing are inauspicious days. What word, then, can be found to describe the days which they occupy in descending? To lose a year, two years, three years, is to talk of an eternity; to return after the death or disgrace of the cardinal, perhaps; to return when d'Artagnan and his friends, happy and triumphant, should have received from the queen the reward they had well acquired by the services they had rendered her-these were devouring ideas that a woman like Milady could not endure....
- The Three Musketeers
Writing history requires fealty to the historian's craft. Despite his many accomplishments General G D Bakshi doesn't qualify to be one
- Indian Express
An exhibition of works by north Wales artist Neil Coombs entitled The Phantoms of Surrealism goes on display at Oriel Colwyn.
- BBC
Football magnate, Esteban Paz tells the BBC's Michelle Fleury about his life in the Ecuadorian capital Quito.
- BBC
Answer:
surrealism: art
powerful: magnate
inauspicious: chance
fealty: honor
powerful: magnate
inauspicious: chance
fealty: honor
Solution:
surrealism: art
powerful: magnate
inauspicious: chance
fealty: honor
Meanings:
powerful: Having or showing great power or force; mighty; influential; strong.
art: artistic creation, artistic production; the objects subject to aesthetic standards; The ability to make things; the creative process applied to aesthetic principles; creativeness; works of art including painting, sculpture, architecture, music, literature, drama, the dance, etc.
fealty: A sense of obligation or loyalty, usually existing because one person feels beholden to another.; A sense of obligation or loyalty, usually existing because one person feels beholden to another
chance: opportunity; fortuity; Happenings that occur unpredictably in the absence of cause or design; luck; uncertainty.
surrealism: A twentieth-century movement in art and literature that emphasized the subconscious or irrational nature of perceived forms through the illogical placing and presentation of subject matter
inauspicious: Accompanied by or predictive of ill luck; not favorable in portent
honor: Great regard or respect given or received; glory; fame; renown; strong sense of right and wrong; the application of integrity and principles.; laurels
magnate: An industrial leader; a powerful business figure
More meanings and details:
powerful
(/ˈpaʊəfl/, /ˈpaʊɚfəl/): adjective1. meaning: Having, or capable of exerting power, potency or influence.
2. meaning: Large; capacious; said of veins of ore.
powerful
(/ˈpaʊəfl/, /ˈpaʊɚfəl/): adjective: adverb1. meaning: To a great extent or degree.
example: Not very many (of them) had been damaged.
synonyms: drastically, extremely, greatly
2. meaning: Conforming to fact, reality or rule; true.
synonyms: actually, authentically, truly
3. meaning: (with superlatives) Used to firmly establish that nothing else surpasses in some respect.
example: He was the very best runner there.
art
(/ɑːt/, /ɑɹt/): noun1. meaning: The conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colours, forms, movements, or other elements in a manner that affects the senses and emotions, usually specifically the production of the beautiful in a graphic or plastic medium.
example: There is a debate as to whether graffiti is art or vandalism.
2. meaning: The creative and emotional expression of mental imagery, such as visual, auditory, social, etc.
3. meaning: Skillful creative activity, usually with an aesthetic focus.
example: She's mastered the art of programming.
4. meaning: The study and the product of these processes.
example: He's at university to study art.
5. meaning: Aesthetic value.
example: Her photographs are nice, but there's no art in them.
6. meaning: Artwork.
example: Sotheby's regularly auctions art for millions.
7. meaning: A field or category of art, such as painting, sculpture, music, ballet, or literature.
example: I'm a great supporter of the arts.
8. meaning: A nonscientific branch of learning; one of the liberal arts.
9. meaning: Skill that is attained by study, practice, or observation.
10. meaning: Contrivance, scheming, manipulation.
fealty
(/ˈfiːlti/): noun1. meaning: Fidelity to one's lord or master; the feudal obligation by which the tenant or vassal was bound to be faithful to his lord
synonyms: allegiance, faithfulness, fidelity
2. meaning: The oath by which this obligation was assumed.
chance
([tʃʰans], [tʃʰeəns], [tʃʰans], [tʃʰans], [tʃʰɐːns], [tʃʰɑːns], [tʃʰeəns]): noun1. meaning: An opportunity or possibility.
example: We had the chance to meet the president last week.
2. meaning: Random occurrence; luck.
example: Why leave it to chance when a few simple steps will secure the desired outcome?
3. meaning: The probability of something happening.
example: There is a 30 percent chance of rain tomorrow.
4. meaning: What befalls or happens to a person; their lot or fate.
chance
([tʃʰans], [tʃʰeəns], [tʃʰans], [tʃʰans], [tʃʰɐːns], [tʃʰɑːns], [tʃʰeəns]): noun: adjective1. meaning: Happening by chance, casual.
chance
([tʃʰans], [tʃʰeəns], [tʃʰans], [tʃʰans], [tʃʰɐːns], [tʃʰɑːns], [tʃʰeəns]): noun: adjective: adverb1. meaning: Perchance; perhaps.
chance
([tʃʰans], [tʃʰeəns], [tʃʰans], [tʃʰans], [tʃʰɐːns], [tʃʰɑːns], [tʃʰeəns]): verb1. meaning: To happen by chance, to occur.
example: It chanced that I found a solution the very next day.
2. meaning: To befall; to happen to.
3. meaning: To try or risk.
example: Shall we carry the umbrella, or chance a rainstorm?
4. meaning: To discover something by chance.
example: He chanced upon a kindly stranger who showed him the way.
5. meaning: (Belize) To rob, cheat or swindle someone.
example: The car broke down a week after I bought it. I was chanced by that fast-talking salesman.
surrealism
(/səˈɹiː(.ə)l.ɪz.əm/): noun1. meaning: An artistic movement and an aesthetic philosophy that aims for the liberation of the mind by emphasizing the critical and imaginative powers of the subconscious.
inauspicious
(/ˌɪnɔːˈspɪʃəs/): adjective1. meaning: Not auspicious; ill-omened
synonyms: unfavorable, unfortunate, unlucky
honor
(/ˈɒn.ə/, /ˈɑn.ɚ/): noun1. meaning: Recognition of importance or value; respect; veneration (of someone, usually for being morally upright or successful)
example: The crowds gave the returning general much honor and praise.
2. meaning: The state of being morally upright, honest, noble, virtuous, and magnanimous; excellence of character; the perception of such a state; favourable reputation; dignity
example: He was a most perfect knight, for he had great honor and chivalry.
3. meaning: A token of praise or respect; something that represents praiseworthiness or respect, such as a prize or award given by the state to a citizen
example: Audie Murphy received many honors, such as the Distinguished Service Cross.
4. meaning: A privilege
example: I had the honour of dining with the ambassador.
5. meaning: (in the plural) the privilege of going first
example: I'll let you have the honours, Bob—go ahead.
6. meaning: A cause of respect and fame; a glory; an excellency; an ornament.
example: He is an honour to his nation.
7. meaning: (feudal law) a seigniory or lordship held of the king, on which other lordships and manors depended
8. meaning: The center point of the upper half of an armorial escutcheon (compare honour point)
9. meaning: In bridge, an ace, king, queen, jack, or ten especially of the trump suit. In some other games, an ace, king, queen or jack.
10. meaning: (in the plural) (courses for) an honours degree: a university qualification of the highest rank
example: At university I took honours in modern history.
honor
(/ˈɒn.ə/, /ˈɑn.ɚ/): noun: verb1. meaning: To think of highly, to respect highly; to show respect for; to recognise the importance or spiritual value of
example: The freedom fighters will be forever remembered and honored by the people.
2. meaning: To conform to, abide by, act in accordance with (an agreement, treaty, promise, request, or the like)
example: I trusted you, but you have not honored your promise.
3. meaning: To confer (bestow) an honour or privilege upon (someone)
example: Ten members of the profession were honored at the ceremony.
4. meaning: To make payment in respect of (a cheque, banker's draft, etc.)
example: I'm sorry Sir, but the bank did not honour your cheque.
magnate
(/ˈmæɡneɪt/): noun1. meaning: Powerful industrialist; captain of industry.
example: I have decided to become an oil magnate, after spending quite some time reading the dictionary definition of the word magnate.
2. meaning: A person of rank, influence or distinction in any sphere.
problem_type: 25/30 (loop 0/0)
Problem Template: _problem_thesaurus_match_antonyms
Match words with their antonyms
| 1. inveigle | a. complain |
| 2. unassuming | b. arrogance |
| 3. milquetoast | c. defiant |
| 4. rejoice | d. bona fide |
Usage:
Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts - The film is more to inveigle the Potter fan base than to provide insights into the technique and craft that went into the eight films.
- NDTV
Oct 27, 2018 ... Saudi Arabia's crown prince is defiant. Muhammad bin Salman stands firm. But will the world move on?
- Economist
Black Widow's Alexei is the latest in a series of strangely compelling deadbeats for David Harbour. He also appears in Steven Soderbergh's new HBO Max thriller, No Sudden Move, as Matt Wertz, a milquetoast accountant drawn into a criminal enterprise that's well out of his league.
- Indian Express
Apr 8, 2021 ... TUCKED AWAY in an unassuming corner of north Brooklyn is a 3,000-square-foot patch of open space. Keap Fourth, at the intersection of Keap?...
- Economist
With assumed tranquillity he then replied: "I have no wish of denying that I did everything in my power to separate my friend from your sister, or that I rejoice in my success. Towards _him_ I have been kinder than towards myself."
- Pride And Prejudice By Jane Austen
... Not that I have much pleasure, indeed, in talking to anybody. People who suffer as I do from nervous complaints can have no great inclination for talking. Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied....
- Pride And Prejudice By Jane Austen
"From the very beginning-from the first moment, I may almost say-of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry....
- Pride And Prejudice By Jane Austen
... Harford sometimes formed one of a little detachment which left the city shortly after noon on Sunday with the purpose of arriving as soon as possible at some public-house on the outskirts of the city where its members duly qualified themselves as bona fide travellers. But his fellow-travellers had never consented to overlook his origin. He had begun life as an obscure financier by lending small sums of money to workmen at usurious interest....
- Dubliners
Answer:
inveigle: bona fide
unassuming: arrogance
milquetoast: defiant
rejoice: complain
unassuming: arrogance
milquetoast: defiant
rejoice: complain
Solution:
inveigle: bona fide
unassuming: arrogance
milquetoast: defiant
rejoice: complain
Meanings:
rejoice: To be glad and take delight in
unassuming: Modest and unpretentious
arrogance: Condition of unjustified pride or self-importance.
inveigle: To convince or persuade someone through trickery, dishonesty, or flattery; to win over by ingenuity or flattery; To lure, entice
defiant: Characterized by defiance; resistant or challenging; rebellious
milquetoast: An unassertive, timid, spineless person who is easily intimidated
bona fide: Legitimate, the real thing, the genuine article.; Legitimate, the real thing, the genuine article
complain: express discontent; To express pain or dissatisfaction; to declare annoyance, resentment, or grief.; to find fault
More meanings and details:
rejoice
(/ɹɪˈd͡ʒɔɪs/): verb1. meaning: To be very happy, be delighted, exult; to feel joy.
2. meaning: To have (someone) as a lover or spouse; to enjoy sexually.
3. meaning: To make happy, exhilarate.
4. meaning: To enjoy.
unassuming
(/ʌnəˈsjuːmɪŋ/): adjective1. meaning: Modest and having no pretensions or ostentation
arrogance
(/ˈæɹ.oʊ.ɡəns/): noun1. meaning: The state of being arrogant; a type of extreme or foolish pride in which someone feels much superior to another
inveigle
(/ɪnˈveɪ.ɡəl/, /ɪnˈveɪ.ɡəl/): verb1. meaning: To convert, convince, or win over with flattery or wiles.
synonyms: entice, induce, put someone up to something
2. meaning: To obtain through guile or cunning.
example: He inveigled an introduction to her.
defiant
(/dɪˈfaɪ(j)ənt/, /dɪˈfaɪənt/): noun1. meaning: One who defies opposition.
defiant
(/dɪˈfaɪ(j)ənt/, /dɪˈfaɪənt/): noun: adjective1. meaning: Defying.
2. meaning: Boldly resisting opposition.
milquetoast
(/ˈmɪlktəʊst/, /ˈmɪlkˌtoʊst/): noun1. meaning: (originally United States) A person of meek or timid disposition; a person who lacks character or effectiveness.
synonyms: softy, wimp, wuss
milquetoast
(/ˈmɪlktəʊst/, /ˈmɪlkˌtoʊst/): noun: adjective1. meaning: (originally United States) Meek, timid; lacking character or effectiveness.
synonyms: feeble, ineffectual, insipid
bona fide
(, /ˌbəʊ.nəˈfaɪ.di/, /ˈboʊnə.faɪd/): adjective1. meaning: In good faith; sincere; without deception or ulterior motive.
example: Although he failed, the prime minister made a bona fide attempt to repair the nation's damaged economy.
synonyms: sincere
antonyms: mala fide
2. meaning: Genuine; not counterfeit.
example: This is a bona fide Roman coin.
synonyms: authentic, genuine
antonyms: bogus, counterfeit
bona fide
(, /ˌbəʊ.nəˈfaɪ.di/, /ˈboʊnə.faɪd/): adjective: adverb1. meaning: In good faith; genuinely, sincerely.
complain
(/kəmˈpleɪn/): verb1. meaning: To express feelings of pain, dissatisfaction, or resentment.
example: Joe was always complaining about the noise made by his neighbours.
2. meaning: To make a formal accusation or bring a formal charge.
example: They've complained about me to the police again.
3. meaning: To creak or squeak, as a timber or wheel.
example: the complaining bed-springs
problem_type: 26/30 (loop 0/0)
Problem Template: _problem_find_odd_synonyms_antonyms
Find odd meaning out.
- paragon
- achilles' heel
- impeccable
- schadenfreude
- foible
- parasitic
Usage:
Shikha Aggarwal writes: As the world grapples with Covid, China has been meticulously steering a version of the pandemic saga in which it emerges as the paragon of hope, good governance and international leadership.
- Indian Express
21 Stunning Examples Of Impeccable Logic. The kind of logic you find when you let millions of people share their thoughts with everyone online....
- Mental Floss
Oct 14, 2014 ... America's ageing infrastructure. The Achilles' heel of the Northeast Corridor. The Portal Bridge in New Jersey is a century old,?...
- Economist
May 31, 2014 ... THE Eurosceptic Danish People's Party (DPP) cannot be blamed for Schadenfreude over the European election. The DPP's leading candidate,?...
- Economist
... He had a native gift for administration, being tolerant both of opinions and conduct, because he felt himself able to overrule them, and was free from the irritations of conscious feebleness. He smiled pleasantly at the foible of a taste which he did not share--at floriculture or antiquarianism for example, which were much in vogue among his fellow-clergyman in the diocese: for himself, he preferred following the history of a campaign, or divining from his knowledge of Nesselrode's motives what would have been his conduct if our cabinet had taken a different course....
- Daniel Deronda
... But Connie didn't mind that. The fine flower of their intimacy was to her rather like an orchid, a bulb stuck parasitic on her tree of life, and producing, to her eyes, a rather shabby flower.
- Lady Chatterlys Lover
Answer:
- paragon
- achilles' heel
- impeccable
- schadenfreude
- foible
- parasitic
impeccable, paragon
All others are synonyms of flawed.
Solution:
- paragon
- achilles' heel
- impeccable
- schadenfreude
- foible
- parasitic
impeccable, paragon
All others are synonyms of flawed.
Meanings:
impeccable: Without defect or error; faultless; flawless
paragon: A peerless model or pattern of perfection; a peerless model or pattern of perfection. Also, a perfect diamond or large pearl that is perfectly round.; The very best example of something
parasitic: Describes something ormore oftensomeone who acts like a parasite and lives off of another while doing little if anything useful
schadenfreude: Satisfaction or pleasure felt at the misfortune of another
achilles' heel: A vulnerable point
foible: A small flaw, weakness, or defect
More meanings and details:
paragon
(/ˈpæɹəɡən/): noun1. meaning: A person of preeminent qualities, who acts as a pattern or model for others.
example: In the novel, Constanza is a paragon of virtue who would never compromise her reputation.
2. meaning: A companion; a match; an equal.
3. meaning: Comparison; competition.
4. meaning: The size of type between great primer and double pica, standardized as 20-point.
5. meaning: A flawless diamond of at least 100 carats.
paragon
(/ˈpæɹəɡən/): noun: verb1. meaning: To compare; to parallel; to put in rivalry or emulation with.
2. meaning: To compare with; to equal; to rival.
3. meaning: To serve as a model for; to surpass.
4. meaning: To be equal; to hold comparison.
impeccable
(/ɪmˈpɛkəbəl/): adjective1. meaning: Perfect, without faults, flaws or errors
example: He grew up in Norway, but he writes impeccable English.
2. meaning: Incapable of wrongdoing or sin; immaculate
schadenfreude
(/ˈʃɑːdənfɹɔɪdə/): noun1. meaning: Malicious enjoyment derived from observing someone else's misfortune.
foible
(/ˈfɔɪbəl/, /ˈfɔɪbəl/): noun1. meaning: A quirk, idiosyncrasy, or mannerism; unusual habit or way (usage is typically plural), that is slightly strange or silly.
example: Try to look past his foibles and see the friendly fellow underneath.
2. meaning: A weakness or failing of character.
3. meaning: Part of a sword between the middle and the point, weaker than the forte.
foible
(/ˈfɔɪbəl/, /ˈfɔɪbəl/): noun: adjective1. meaning: Weak; feeble.
parasitic
(/pæ.ɹəˈsɪt.ɪk/, /pɛɹ.əˈsɪt.ɪk/): noun1. meaning: A component of a circuit that does not show up in a circuit's schematic but does show up in the circuit's behavior.
parasitic
(/pæ.ɹəˈsɪt.ɪk/, /pɛɹ.əˈsɪt.ɪk/): noun: adjective1. meaning: Of or pertaining to a biological or symbolic parasite.
2. meaning: Drawing upon another organism for sustenance.
3. meaning: Exploiting another for personal gain.
Additional usage:
... As I shut it, Saint Paul's, and all the many church-clocks in the City-some leading, some accompanying, some following-struck that hour. The sound was curiously flawed by the wind; and I was listening, and thinking how the wind assailed and tore it, when I heard a footstep on the stair....
- Great Expectations
problem_type: 27/30 (loop 0/0)
Problem Template: _problem_idioms_match_columns
Match idioms with their meanings
| 1. all the marbles | a. exactly (said of instructions or procedures) |
| 2. hard nut to crack | b. a difficult problem or a difficult person |
| 3. go under the knife | c. undergo surgery |
| 4. to the letter | d. the entire prize or reward |
Usage:
Kim Zolciak-Biermann Has '2 Kids Same Recovery Room' After Daughter Brielle & Son Kash Go Under the Knife
- People
Former television executive Indrani Mukerjea, who is accused of killing her daughter Sheena Bora, is not cooperating with investigators and was a "hard nut to crack", the government lawyer told a Mumbai court on Saturday.
- NDTV
I had made up my mind to speak to him now. In short, I had come down on purpose. 'Guardian,' I said, rather hesitating and trembling, 'when would you like to have the answer to the letter Charley came for?'
- Bleak House
... If you buried a marble with certain necessary incantations, and left it alone a fortnight, and then opened the place with the incantation he had just used, you would find that all the marbles you had ever lost had gathered themselves together there, meantime, no matter how widely they had been separated....
- The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer
Answer:
all the marbles: the entire prize or reward
hard nut to crack: a difficult problem or a difficult person
go under the knife: undergo surgery
to the letter: exactly (said of instructions or procedures)
hard nut to crack: a difficult problem or a difficult person
go under the knife: undergo surgery
to the letter: exactly (said of instructions or procedures)
Solution:
all the marbles: the entire prize or reward
hard nut to crack: a difficult problem or a difficult person
go under the knife: undergo surgery
to the letter: exactly (said of instructions or procedures)
problem_type: 28/30 (loop 0/0)
Problem Template: _problem_find_synonym_thesaurus
Find all synonyms of relationship.
- sociometry
- estrange
- misanthrope
- correlate
Usage:
..." Golenishtchev had been contemptuously indifferent to the tone taken by Vronsky. This second meeting might have been expected, one would have supposed, to estrange them still more. But now they beamed and exclaimed with delight on recognizing one another. Vronsky would never have expected to be so pleased to see Golenishtchev, but probably he was not himself aware how bored he was....
- Anna Karenina
... In a word, after being tried out, the crisp, shrivelled blubber, now called scraps or fritters, still contains considerable of its unctuous properties. These fritters feed the flames. Like a plethoric burning martyr, or a self-consuming misanthrope, once ignited, the whale supplies his own fuel and burns by his own body. Would that he consumed his own smoke!...
- Moby Dick
STATE SCHOOL ADOPTS NEW SOCIAL TRAINING; Sociometry, Developing Spontaneity Among Girls, Aims to Reach Hidden Human Force.
- New York Times
Dec 24, 2012 ... HOW is Christmas celebrated in other countries? Using the magical Google Correlate, one can glimpse what different countries search for?...
- Economist
Answer:
- sociometry
- estrange
- misanthrope
- correlate
correlate, sociometry
Solution:
- sociometry
- estrange
- misanthrope
- correlate
correlate, sociometry
Meanings:
correlate: To relate logically or systematically; to link
sociometry: The determination of preference among members of distinct social groups
estrange: To alienate or remove from a position or relationship
misanthrope: A person of antisocial nature who dislikes other people and thinks poorly of them until they give him reason not to
More meanings and details:
sociometry
: noun1. meaning: The quantitative study of social interactions, and the measurement of preferences etc.
estrange
(/əˈstɹeɪndʒ/): verb1. meaning: To cause to feel less close or friendly; alienate. To cease contact with (particularly of a family member or spouse, especially in form estranged).
2. meaning: To remove from an accustomed place or set of associations.
misanthrope
(/ˈmɪs.ənˌθɹoʊp/): noun1. meaning: One who hates all mankind; one who hates the human race.
correlate
(/ˈkɒɹələt/, /ˈkɒɹəleɪt/, /ˈkɑɹələt/, /ˈkɑɹəleɪt/): noun1. meaning: Either of a pair of things related by a correlation; a correlative.
correlate
(/ˈkɒɹələt/, /ˈkɒɹəleɪt/, /ˈkɑɹələt/, /ˈkɑɹəleɪt/): noun: verb1. meaning: To compare things and bring them into a relation having corresponding characteristics
2. meaning: To be related by a correlation
problem_type: 29/30 (loop 0/0)
Problem Template: _problem_find_antonym_thesaurus
Find all antonyms of facile.
- obtuse
- lithe
- abstruse
- efficacious
- adroit
- fecundity
Usage:
... Her heart was beating heavily still. Fool, fool that she was, to get into such a state! How she thanked God for Gerald's obtuse blindness. Thank God he could see nothing.
- Women In Love
... And she with quivering hands pressed his head against her, as he lay suffused out, and she lay fully conscious. The lovely creative warmth flooded through him like a sleep of fecundity within the womb. Ah, if only she would grant him the flow of this living effluence, he would be restored, he would be complete again....
- Women In Love
... Twenty times she seemed almost to be submerged by these mountains of water which rose behind her; but the adroit management of the pilot saved her. The passengers were often bathed in spray, but they submitted to it philosophically....
- Around The World In 8080 Days
... His gentleness was never tinged by dogmatism, and his instructions were given with an air of frankness and good nature that banished every idea of pedantry. In a thousand ways he smoothed for me the path of knowledge and made the most abstruse inquiries clear and facile to my apprehension. My application was at first fluctuating and uncertain; it gained strength as I proceeded and soon became so ardent and eager that the stars often disappeared in the light of morning whilst I was yet engaged in my laboratory....
- Frankenstein By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
But concerning his subjects, when affairs outside are disturbed he has only to fear that they will conspire secretly, from which a prince can easily secure himself by avoiding being hated and despised, and by keeping the people satisfied with him, which it is most necessary for him to accomplish, as I said above at length. And one of the most efficacious remedies that a prince can have against conspiracies is not to be hated and despised by the people, for he who conspires against a prince always expects to please them by his removal; but when the conspirator can only look forward to offending them, he will not have the courage to take such a course, for the difficulties that confront a conspirator are infinite....
- The Prince
... His fingers were straying about among the litter of tin tubes and dry brushes, seeking for something. Yes, it was the long palette-knife, with its thin blade of lithe steel. He had found it at last. He was going to rip up the canvas.
- The Picture Of Dorian Gray
Answer:
- obtuse
- lithe
- abstruse
- efficacious
- adroit
- fecundity
obtuse, abstruse
Solution:
- obtuse
- lithe
- abstruse
- efficacious
- adroit
- fecundity
obtuse, abstruse
Meanings:
obtuse: Lacking understanding, intelligence, and perception; unable to comprehend; having a dense mind
abstruse: Arcane, complex, difficult to understand and learn
lithe: Having a body and/or mind that is limber, flexible, and supple
efficacious: Capable of having a desired effect
adroit: Skilled or clever in a particular pursuit
fecundity: The quality of being exceptionally productive, creative, fertile, or fruitful; A person, organization, resource, or activity that is exceptionally productive, creative, fertile, or fruitful
More meanings and details:
obtuse
(, /-ˈtʃuːs/, /ɑb-/): verb1. meaning: To dull or reduce an emotion or a physical state.
obtuse
(, /-ˈtʃuːs/, /ɑb-/): verb: adjective1. meaning: Blunt; not sharp, pointed, or acute in form.
2. meaning: Intellectually dull or dim-witted.
3. meaning: Of sound, etc.: deadened, muffled, muted.
4. meaning: Indirect or circuitous.
lithe
(/laɪð/): verb1. meaning: To go.
lithe
(/laɪð/): adjective1. meaning: Mild; calm.
example: lithe weather
synonyms: clement, gentle, mellow
2. meaning: Slim but not skinny.
example: lithe body
synonyms: lissome, lithesome, swack
3. meaning: Capable of being easily bent; flexible.
example: the elephant’s lithe proboscis.
synonyms: flexible, limber, pliant
4. meaning: Adaptable.
lithe
(/laɪð/): verb1. meaning: To become calm.
2. meaning: To make soft or mild; soften; alleviate; mitigate; lessen; smooth; palliate.
lithe
(/laɪð/): verb1. meaning: To attend; listen, hearken.
2. meaning: To listen to, hearken to.
lithe
(/laɪð/): noun1. meaning: Shelter.
abstruse
(/əbˈstɹuːs/, /æbˈstɹus/): adjective1. meaning: Difficult to comprehend or understand.
synonyms: esoteric, obscure, recondite
2. meaning: Concealed or hidden out of the way; secret.
efficacious
(/ɛf.ɪ.ˈkeɪ.ʃəs/): adjective1. meaning: Effective; possessing efficacy.
example: This medicine is efficacious.
synonyms: effective
antonyms: inefficacious
adroit
(/əˈdɹɔɪt/, /əˈdɹɔɪt/): adjective1. meaning: Deft, dexterous, or skillful.
fecundity
(/fɪˈkʌndɪtɪ/, /fɪˈkʌndɪtɪ/): noun1. meaning: Ability to produce offspring.
2. meaning: Ability to cause growth.
3. meaning: Number, rate, or capacity of offspring production.
4. meaning: Rate of production of young by a female.
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Find the word whose antonym is laconic.
- hyperbole
- aggrandize
- jactitation
- bumptious
Usage:
'Oh yes-oh I do! I want most awfully to do Bismarck. He looks SO splendid this morning, so FIERCE. He's almost as big as a lion.' And the child chuckled sardonically at her own hyperbole. 'He's a real king, he really is.'
- Women In Love
Alexander the Sixth arose afterwards, who of all the pontiffs that have ever been showed how a pope with both money and arms was able to prevail; and through the instrumentality of the Duke Valentino, and by reason of the entry of the French, he brought about all those things which I have discussed above in the actions of the duke. And although his intention was not to aggrandize the Church, but the duke, nevertheless, what he did contributed to the greatness of the Church, which, after his death and the ruin of the duke, became the heir to all his labours....
- The Prince
'That scum! That bumptious lout! That miserable cad! And carrying on with him all the time, while you were here and he was one of my servants! My God, my God, is there any end to the beastly lowness of women!'
- Lady Chatterlys Lover
Answer:
- hyperbole
- aggrandize
- jactitation
- bumptious
aggrandize
laconic is antonym of aggrandize.
Solution:
- hyperbole
- aggrandize
- jactitation
- bumptious
aggrandize
laconic is antonym of aggrandize.
Meanings:
aggrandize: To exaggerate, put on a false front, and make something look greater and grander than it really is.; To exaggerate, put on a false front, and make something look greater and grander than it really is
bumptious: Overbearing or crudely assertive; overly pushy or impertinent; Loud and assertive in a crude way
jactitation: A false boast, especially one that is harmful to others
hyperbole: An over-exaggeration made for effect; Extravagant overstatement
More meanings and details:
hyperbole
(/haɪˈpɝːbəli/, /haɪˈpɝːbəli/): noun1. meaning: Deliberate or unintentional overstatement, particularly extreme overstatement.
2. meaning: An instance or example of such overstatement.
3. meaning: A hyperbola.
aggrandize
(/əˈɡɹændaɪ̯z/): verb1. meaning: To make great; to enlarge; to increase.
example: to aggrandize one's authority, distress
2. meaning: To make great or greater in power, rank, honor, or wealth (applied to persons, countries, etc.).
3. meaning: To make appear great or greater; to exalt.
4. meaning: To increase or become great.
jactitation
(/ˌdʒæktɪˈteɪʃən/): noun1. meaning: Bragging or boasting, especially in a false manner to another's detriment.
2. meaning: A false pretense of being married to somebody.
3. meaning: Extreme restlessness; tossing and turning in bed.
bumptious
(/ˈbʌmpʃəs/): adjective1. meaning: Obtrusively pushy; self-assertive to a pretentious extreme.
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